http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/janet_jackson_fine_overturned_/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:20:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/janet_jackson_fine_overturned_/comment-page-1/#comment-466815 joe Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:55:26 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24526#comment-466815 How many citizes in this country would get treated this way? It seems the FCC made a big "to do" over something it dropped years later. How much tax-payer money went into this process? And for what return? Shameful. How many citizes in this country would get treated this way? It seems the FCC made a big "to do" over something it dropped years later. How much tax-payer money went into this process? And for what return? Shameful.

]]> http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/janet_jackson_fine_overturned_/comment-page-1/#comment-466535 Bithead Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:04:09 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24526#comment-466535 Once again, the FCC proves it's about as useful as as Nancy Pelosi. Once again, the FCC proves it's about as useful as as Nancy Pelosi.

]]> http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/janet_jackson_fine_overturned_/comment-page-1/#comment-466523 Triumph Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:36:03 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24526#comment-466523 I love this lady. I love this lady.

]]> http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/janet_jackson_fine_overturned_/comment-page-1/#comment-466478 Gollum Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:58:42 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=24526#comment-466478 The Third Circuit opinion is <a href="http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/063575p.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It isn't quite the victory it should have been. The court overturned the fine mainly because FCC changed its standards without prior notice to the industry, not because the standard is bad in and of itself. Bizarre, to me at least, is the underlying (and still ostensibly valid) premise that a breast is a "sexual organ." The Third Circuit opinion is here. It isn't quite the victory it should have been. The court overturned the fine mainly because FCC changed its standards without prior notice to the industry, not because the standard is bad in and of itself. Bizarre, to me at least, is the underlying (and still ostensibly valid) premise that a breast is a "sexual organ."

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