New 'safe harbor' rules face challenge
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The FCC's rules regarding hours in which indecent material may be broadcast are under attack again from several media groups. The rules were first challenged in 1987, when the FCC broadened its definition of indecency and restricted broadcasting of such defined material to midnight to 6 am. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in 1988, upheld the FCC's indecency definition but not the time restriction and Congress responded by enacting a 24-hour ban. The appeals court voided the ban and, in 1992, Congress reinstated the time restriction, which is again being challenged in court.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1993
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Business Week restraint ruled unconstitutional: panel reaffirms gag orders 'rarely justified' under First Amendment
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The US Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in March 1996 that a federal District Court's Sept 1995 restraint on publication by Business Week magazine was unjustified. The lower court's findings did not meet the strict standard imposed in such cases by Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26(c). A lawyer with the firm representing Bankers Trust gave a Business Week reporter a document sealed by the court regarding a lawsuit Proctor & Gamble brought against Bankers Trust. Bankers Trust claims the case is moot.
Publication Name: News Media & the Law
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0149-0737
Year: 1996
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