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Supreme Court to Decide If FCC Can Regulate Profanity

By Andrew B. Einhorn Mar 19 2008, 12:09 PM

The ability of the FCC to punish broadcast stations for airing "fleeting expletives" -- the one-time blurting out of profanity on broadcast programming -- is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court announced this week that it will hear a case in which a lower court ruled that the FCC's new policy of penalizing one-time utterances of profanity was illegal under federal administrative law. 

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