The Supreme Court has scheduled the oral argument in FCC v. Fox Television Stations for Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012.
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Media Access Project has filed a brief with the Supreme Court asking that it affirm a lower court decision that found the FCC’s ability to levy fines for indecent content unconstitutional.
Kenneth W. Starr, the president of Baylor University and a former federal appellate judge, solicitor general and independent counsel, argues that the benefits of increased access and transparency are many, and democracy’s first principles strongly support the people’s right to know how their government works.
The watchdog group files in support of FCC authority to fine broadcasters for airing indecent material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
FCC Makes Indecency Case At Supreme Court
The FCC on Wednesday filed its brief at the U.S. Supreme Court defending its actions against Fox and ABC programming it found to be indecent. The fact that the court is reviewing such disparate forms of indecency (fleeting expletives during live programming versus nudity during scripted programming) increases the likelihood of a broader ruling by the court regarding indecency policy, as opposed to a decision limited to the very specific facts of these two cases.
Exclusives
The justices said today they will review appeals court rulings that threw out the FCC’s rules against the isolated use of expletives as well as fines against broadcasters who showed a woman’s nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of ABC’s NYPD Blue.
The Supreme Court today rejected a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to children.
According to attorneys involved in the challenge to the FCC’s indecency enforcement regime, they should know by Monday, June 27, whether the Supreme Court will hear the FCC’s challenge to a lower court ruling that that regime is an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.
In an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, the watchdog group Parents Television Council says “the TV networks will not halt their crusade for the ‘right’ to air f-words and graphic nudity in front of children. Without Supreme Court intervention, the FCC stands to lose all Congressionally-mandated authority over indecent broadcast television and radio content.”
The Obama administration is seeking the Supreme Court’s review of appeals court rulings that threw out the FCC’s rules against the isolated use of expletives as well as fines against broadcasters who showed a woman’s nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of ABC’s NYPD Blue.
An FCC source says that the government has exhausted its requests for extensions on the filing deadline for asking the Supreme Court to review the Fox profanity decision, but also says that the Solicitor General, with which the FCC has been consulting, still hasn’t decided whether to appeal.
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