Media & Entertainment Law

Cert Grant in "Fleeting Expletives" Case
SCOTUS granted cert today in eight cases (full details courtesy of SCOTUSblog). Among them was FCC v. Fox Television Stations, in which the Court will review whether the FCC acted appropriately in amending regulations to eliminate the so-called "fleeting expletives" doctrine...

Shit ... the US Supreme Court considers fleeting expletives
Last week I blogged that the US Supreme Court is going to review the Federal Communications Commission?s policy of punishing broadcasters for airing "fleeting expletives" (see here)...

The Fight Over Fleeting Expletives: How A Grant of Supreme Court Review May Lead to Expanded FCC Power and Reduced First Amendment Rights for Broadcasters
The best explanation for why the Court has decided to review the new FCC policy -- which addresses the subject of "fleeting expletives" -- is that the Court wants to give the policy its blessing, or at least to warn lower federal courts to grant more deference to the FCC in similar broadcast indecency cases.

Court Grants Cert in FCC v. Fox
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted cert and agreed to review the Second Circuit's ruling in Fox v. FCC, 06-1760-ag, that the Commission's policy sanctioning "fleeting expletives" is arbitrary and capricious...

Supreme Court Defers on Fleeting Expletives Case
The LA Times Reports: Last year, an appeals court in New York blocked the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing its new rule against “fleeting expletives.” And Bush administration lawyers had urged the Supreme Court to take up the dispute and to give the FCC a green light to enforce the new policy...

"The Fight Over 'Fleeting Expletives': How A Grant of Supreme Court Review May Lead to Expanded FCC Power and Reduced First Amendment Rights for Broadcasters."
"The Fight Over 'Fleeting Expletives': How A Grant of Supreme Court Review May Lead to Expanded FCC Power and Reduced First Amendment Rights for Broadcasters." Julie Hilden has this essay online today at FindLaw.

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