The federal government wants more time to decide whether to chall...
The federal government wants more time to decide whether to challenge in the Supreme Court a lower court remand of an FCC indecency fine, said a participant in the case. The Solicitor General sought a month’s extension, to Nov.…
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18, of a deadline to file a cert petition with the high court, said Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman. He participated in CBS v. FCC, in which the 3rd U.S. Appeals Court in Philadelphia remanded a $550,000 fine against the broadcast network for airing Janet Jackson’s breast-bearing Super Bowl halftime show (CD July 22 p1). Such requests by the Solicitor General are “granted almost automatically,” Schwartzman said. “This lets them see how the oral argument goes in the Fox case, which is on Nov. 4” before the high court, he said.