Supreme Court Schedules June 23 Conference on TV Profanity Case

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The Supreme Court has scheduled a June 23 conference to discuss broadcast television's challenge of Federal Communications Commission indecency enforcement.

A lower court ruled that the FCC's ban is an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. At the conference, the Justices will discuss whether or not they should hear an appeal. The FCC's indecency enforcement regime has been pretty much in limbo for the last half decade as its fleeting profanity and nudity enforcement regime was running a legal gauntlet. Broadcasters argue the FCC has not given them sufficient guidance on what it will find indecent, including ruling that swearing in a blues documentary was indecent, while finding that similar language in a scripted program -- Saving Private Ryan -- was not.


Supreme Court Schedules June 23 Conference on TV Profanity Case