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Video: Rachel Maddow Deconstructs the 'Fast and Furious' Fake Outrage

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lawhawk6/21/2012 8:23:40 am PDT

Supreme Court ruling time. The Court reverses the 2d Circuit on the FCC indecency case against Fox and CBS. It found that the FCC fair notice rules were impermissibly vague:

Because the Commission failed to give Fox or ABC fair notice prior to the broadcasts in question that fleeting expletives and momentary nudity could be found actionably indecent, the Commission’s
standards as applied to these broadcasts were vague.

The Court sidestepped 1st Amendment questions and revisiting Pacifica.

It was a very narrow ruling.