Supreme Court Hears Fox Profanity Case
Broadcasting & Cable, November 4, 2008
By John Eggerton
Fox made its case in the Supreme Court, hoping to convince the court to uphold a lower court ruling that the FCC had been wrong to find swearing on Fox's Billboard Awards broadcast (by Cher in 2002 and by Nicole Richie in 2003) indecent.
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