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The Supreme Court deleted expletives left and right Tuesday in narrowly upholding a government policy that threatens broadcasters with fines over the use of even a single curse word on live television.
Ukrainian officials say a Texas man wanted in the United States on charges of indecency with minors has voluntarily left for home after being detained near Kiev.
The Supreme Court spent an hour on Tuesday talking about dirty words on television without once using any or making plain how it would decide whether the government could ban them.
A British couple convicted of having sex on a beach in Dubai have appealed the verdict.
A British couple on trial for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach asked the judge on Tuesday to be allowed to leave the country.
In an unusual move, the Justice Department sued Fox Broadcasting Co. and another broadcaster Friday to collect $56,000 in fines for the broadcast of a raunchy reality show in 2003 that included scenes from bachelor and bachelorette parties.
The Supreme Court will decide whether it is indecent when some foul-mouthed celebrity drops the "F-word" on live television, stepping into its first major broadcast indecency case in 30 years.
Comparing its dilemma to a Greek myth, lawyers for the Federal Communications Commission have formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court's rejection of the agency's policy on broadcast profanity.
CBS took many precautions before the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that aired with Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," an attorney for the company said Tuesday.
A Senate committee on Thursday acted to restore the government's authority to fine television and radio broadcasters for airing profanities, even if they are fleeting references.
An appeals court said a new federal policy against accidentally aired profanities on TV and radio was invalid, noting that vulgar language had become so common that even President Bush has been heard using expletives.
The Federal Communications Commission rushed to judgment in concluding that "NYPD Blue" and three other television programs violated rules governing the broadcast of indecent and profane material, an FCC lawyer said Tuesday.
President Bush signed legislation Thursday that will cost broadcasters dearly when raunchy programming exceeds "the bounds of decency."
Four TV broadcast networks and their affiliates have filed court challenges to a March 15 Federal Communications Commission ruling that found several programs "indecent" because of language.
The government is renewing its crackdown on indecent television, proposing a total of $3.9 million in new fines while upholding its $550,000 fine against CBS stations for the Janet Jackson breast exposure at the Super Bowl.
Mother Caught Having Sex In Vernon Library, Police Say - A Rockville mother of two was charged Thursday morning after a patron at Rockville Public Library and her 4-year-old daughter, trying to use the library's restroom, stumbled in on the woman and a man having sex.
Protests at 'trouser trial' KHARTOUM- MORE than 100 women gathered outside a Khartoum courthouse on Tuesday to protest at the trial of a Sudanese woman journalist who faces 40 lashes for wearing 'indecent' trousers.
Hardee's largest franchisee says ads in bad taste, won't run in N.C. Another Hardee's promotion has been rejected as too racy for North Carolina consumers. The Rocky Mount company that is Hardee's largest franchisee is angry about TV ads for the fast-food chain's new Biscuit Holes.
Wilde letters to young lover made public for first time Oscar Wilde's clandestine relationship with the young Lord Alfred Douglas resulted in scandal and his eventual imprisonment.
FCC Needs Indecency Policy to Protect Children ACLJ joins members of Congress to ask Supreme Court to uphold FCC's indecency policy to protect children
Activists focused on GTA IV? FCC indecency complaints plummetConsumer complaints to the Federal Communications Commission about broadcaster indecency or obscenity dropped substantially in the third quarter of 2007, the agency reported yesterday.
Fox Won't Pay $91,000 Fine for Program With StrippersNews Corp.'s Fox network says it won't pay a $91,000 indecency fine imposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for a 2003 broadcast featuring strippers at bachelor and bachelorette parties.
Supreme Court may rethink broadcast indecencyAwards shows have revived the issue of what may be indecent on the public airwaves. The jurists haven't ruled on the matter in 30 years.
Fox News Freaks Out After Video Highlighting Their Indecency Becomes a Major HitIt's amazing what you can get away with showing.
Whence the !@#$? How does a dirty word get that way? A federal appeals panel said the FCC could no longer slap indecency fines on broadcasters who accidentally allowed the word f&%^ on the airwaves, arguing that these days the word f&*% is commonly used to express frustration rather than sexual obscenity.
The Morning Brief - WSJ.comAnd the judges pointed out that such vulgarities are often used to express frustration and excitement, even by "the top leaders of our government." You gotta love it!!
Court to FCC: If Bush/Cheny can use vulgar language, then govt cannot others it.WASHINGTON, June 4 — If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.
Fox: How can the FCC fine us when they don't publish the rules?The FCC was in court last week, defending its recent indecency rulings before an appellate panel of judges.
Fox, NBC, and CBS going to war over broadcast indecencyThe FCC's stance on what is considered indecency on live air has been dictated by the Supreme Court as unintentional unscripted and non-repeating occurrences, such as U2 singer Bono's famous "This is f**king fantastic" during a live awards show.
Authorities: Naked prosecutor caught on camera - CNN.comHAMILTON, Ohio (AP) -- A city prosecutor was charged with indecency after a security camera caught him walking around naked in a government building after business hours.
Police: Cam Catches Prosecutor NakedPolice: Cam Catches Prosecutor Naked ....A security camera caught a city prosecutor walking around naked in a government building after business hours, authorities said. Scott Blauvelt, 35, was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of public indecency...
One boob == 963,000 FCC complaintsAn exploration, following the release of several years of FCC statistics, of the level of complaints that the organization generally recieves, as well as how one event (e.g.
FCC: Fines and Confusion Commission?Terri Gross interviews a tv producer, an FCC commissioner, and attorney and a Parents Television Council executive director on the FCC crackdown and the confusion around what is acceptable to air and what isn't
Islamic group files indecency complaint against Miss IndonesiaA militant Islamic group has filed a police report against Indonesia's Miss Universe candidate accusing her of indecency, a lawyer for the organization said on Tuesday.
Indonesian Playboy Editor, Model Could Be JailedFrom the page: -- A Playboy magazine editor and a centerfold model who appeared in the first edition in Indonesia have been named by police as suspects in an indecency case, a move praised by religious hard-liners in the predominantly Muslim country. --
CBS affiliates challenge FCC on decency complaintsCBS affiliate stations told federal regulators on Tuesday that proposed fines for a prime-time TV drama depicting teenagers engaged in sex should be tossed out because complaints about the show did not come from real people.
FCC Uses Fine Increase to Battle Indecency"As we found in our recent research study, when Clear Channel took advantage of "deregulation" to expand from 40 radio stations to over 1200, it replaced local programming on its new stations with Howard Stern and Bubba the Love Sponge.
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