The U.S. Supreme Court is being urged in friend-of-the-court briefs to keep intact an appellate court decision that the Federal Communications Commission went too far in a ruling that Cher’s and Nicole Richie’s words on Fox’s live telecasts of the Billboard Music Awards amounted to broadcast indecency...
Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction on the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show may have been exciting, but it didn’t violate TV indecency standards, a federal appeals court ruled today. The decision struck a blow to the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to raise indecency standards on broadcast...