The Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a decision overturning the FCC’s fining of 20 CBS stations in the Janet Jackson Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction.” In court papers, the agencies are asking the high court to take...
Reaction came swiftly to an appellate court’s decision overturning the Federal Communications Commission’s fining of CBS stations in the Janet Jackson 2004 Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” incident. Artists, broadcasters and some First Amendment groups praised the ruling, while advocates of an 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...