CBS Asks Court To Take Up Constitutionality Of Indecency Enforcement

CBS wants the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to tackle the FCC's indecency regime head on, and, likening the commission to an obsessed seas captain, asked it, in effect, not to give Ahab another harpoon. In a reply brief to that court Friday, the company said the FCC had raised new issues in its own brief in which the FCC strongly defended the $550,000 indecency fine it leveled against CBS and asked the Third Circuit to allow it to investigate further to prove its assertion that CBS had the means to block the reveal and chose not to do so.
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Posted by Editor at October 6, 2009 01:15 AM