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"A backside brouhaha"

"A backside brouhaha": Today at The Boston Globe's "Brainiac" blog, Christopher Shea has a post that begins, "What, exactly, are the buttocks? The FCC and ABC, Inc., are duking it out over that profound question, which has now reached the federal appeals court for the Second Circuit. The debate has drawn in some of the country's top legal advocates. Seth Waxman, for example, who leads the appellate practice at the elite firm WilmerHale, has been mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee during Barack Obama's presidential term. But first he will make the bold argument, on behalf of ABC, that the buttocks are not a 'sexual or excretory organ.' Never have been, never will be -- whatever the anatomically illiterate FCC says."

Hmm, that sounds like an appellate brief that I should be posting online here at "How Appealing."

Update: You can access ABC's opening brief on appeal at this link. You can access the FCC's appellate brief in response at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).