The Supreme Court likely will hold off deciding whether to take...
The Supreme Court likely will hold off deciding whether to take up FCC v. CBS until ruling this term on the agency’s indecency case against Disney’s ABC and News Corp.’s Fox broadcast-TV networks, a lawyer who’s sided with broadcasters on…
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the issue predicted. The high court didn’t act Monday on whether to grant writ of certiorari on the commission’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling throwing out a $550,000 fine against CBS over Janet Jackson’s split-second 2004 Super Bowl halftime breast-barring incident (CD April 19 p20). “Presumably, they'll hold it until the Fox case is decided,” said communications lawyer Andrew Schwartzman. “The cert petition was on the calendar."