Supreme Court Sides with Broadcasters But Avoids First Amendment Challenge to Decency Rules

Jun 21, 2012

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Today, in FCC v. Fox the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Fox Television and ABC in their “vagueness” challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decency violations, but the High Court did not rule on the constitutionality of FCC’s decency standards.

Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in FCC v. Fox, urging the Court to uphold the decency regulations, while the broadcasters claimed the standards violated their First Amendment rights. For now, the Court declined to reach the First Amendment challenge.

The airwaves are owned by the people of the United States, not broadcasters. Broadcasters have a duty to operate in the public interest. Certainly protecting children from profanity and nudity is in the public interest.

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