Court Overturns FCC Ruling on ‘Fleeting Expletives’: “On a 2-to-1 vote, a panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected the FCC’s ruling that Fox Television Network’s airing of profanities by Nicole Richie and Cher during the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards amounted to indecency. The court majority went further, questioning whether the new policy-issued in reaction to Bono’s referring to an award as “fucking brilliant” during NBC’s telecast of the Golden Globe Awards in 2003-was legally sustainable.”

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