Supreme Court to hear indecency case
NOTE: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear, with argument this Fall, perhaps in November, an appeal by the Federal Communications Commission seeking to regain the power to ban the use of any single vulgar word on radio and TV broadcasts (FCC v. Fox Television, et al., 07-582). The potential impact of that case may have increased on Monday, with a ruling by a federal appeals court blocking an FCC policy penalizing a broadcaster for the use of any single “indecent” visual, non-verbal, image.
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Supreme Court to review FCC indecency case