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Fcc Vs. Pacifica Foundation

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jul 03, 1978

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  1. Broadrick Vs. Oklahoma US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1973
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  2. Manual Enterprises, Inc. Vs. Day US Supreme Court · Jun 25, 1962
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  3. Hess Vs. Indiana US Supreme Court · Nov 19, 1973
  4. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. Vs. Wilson US Supreme Court · May 26, 1952
  5. FCC v. Pacifica
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  6. Foundation - 438 U.S. 726 (1978) U.S. Supreme Court FCC v. Pacifica
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  7. Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978) Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica
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  8. to conconformance with accepted standards of morality. Contrary to respondent's argument, this Court, in Hamling v. United
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  9. broadcasts containing patently offensive references to sexual and excretory activities. Cf. Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC
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  10. The First Amendment does not prohibit all governmental regulation that depends on the content of speech. Schenck v. United
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  11. Black v. Cutter
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  12. constitutional questions, for it is our settled practice to avoid the unnecessary decision of such issues. Rescue Army v. Municipal
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  13. broadly in an adjudicatory proceeding, federal courts have never been empowered to issue advisory opinions. See Herb v. Pitcairn
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  14. Thus, for example, in his opinion in Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith v. FCC
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  15. U.S.App.D.C. at 150-151, n. 3, 403 F.2d at 173-174, n. 3. See also Office of Communication of United Church of Christ v. FCC
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  16. meaning of the anti-censorship provision. H.R.Rep. No. 304, 80th Cong., 1st Sess., A106 (1947). Cf. Tidewater Oil Co. v. United
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  17. as that term was defined in Miller v. California
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  18. in Hamling v. United
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  19. s coverage is limited to obscenity, the Court followed the lead of Mr. Justice Harlan in Manual Enterprises, Inc. v. Day
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  20. by reading into it the limits set by Miller v. California
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  21. it cannot be adequately judged in the abstract. The approach is also consistent with Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC
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  22. self-censorship of controversial program Page 438 U. S. 743 content. Radio Television News Directors Assn. v. United
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  23. the constitutionality of these regulations by envisioning the most extreme applications conceivable, United States v. Sullivan
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  24. some of these references may be protected, they surely lie at the periphery of First Amendment concern. Cf. Bates v. State
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  25. Bar of Arizona, 433 U. S. 350 , 433 U. S. 380 -381. Young v. American
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  26. of speech are critical elements of First Amendment analysis is Mr. Justice Holmes' statement for the Court in Schenck v. United
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  27. in the years since Schenck. The government may forbid speech calculated to provoke a fight. See Chaplinsky v. New
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  28. Bates v. State
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  29. It may treat libels against private citizens more severely than libels against public officials. See Gertz v. Robert
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  30. Welch, Inc., 418 U. S. 323 . Obscenity may be wholly prohibited. Miller v. California
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  31. Young v. American
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  32. the protection of the First Amendment because their content is so offensive to contemporary moral standards. Roth v. United
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  33. Chaplinski v. New
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  34. of the First Amendment. Some uses of even the most offensive words are unquestionably protected. See, e.g., Hess v. Indiana
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  35. are shocking in another. To paraphrase Mr. Justice Harlan, one occasion's lyric is another's vulgarity. Cf. Cohen v. California
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  36. We have long recognized that each medium of expression presents special First Amendment problems. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
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  37. publishers from being required to print the replies of those whom they criticize, Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo
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  38. on the contrary, they must give free time to the victims of their criticism. Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC
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  39. home, where the individual's right to be left alone plainly outweighs the First Amendment rights of an intruder. Rowan v. Post
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  40. theaters, for example, may be prohibited from making indecent material available to children. We held in Ginsberg v. New
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  41. Euclid v. Ambler
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  42. radio receivers are in the home, a place where people's privacy interest is entitled to extra deference, see Rowan v. Post
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  43. In KFKB Broadcasting Assn. v. Federal
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  44. App.D.C. at 81, 47 F.2d at 672. In Trinity Methodist Church, South v. Federal
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  45. Bay State Beacon, Inc. v. FCC
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  46. Idaho Microwave, Inc. v. FCC
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  47. National Assn. of Theatre Owners v. FCC
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  48. civil penalties changes the statutory structure, no substantive change was apparently intended. Cf. Tidewater Oil Co. v. United
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  49. reconsideration, 41 F.C.C.2d 777 (1973), aff'd on other grounds sub nom. Illinois Citizens Committee for Broadcasting v. FCC
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  50. F.C.C. 250 (1962), reconsideration denied, 34 F.C.C. 101 (1963), aff'd on other grounds sub nom. Robinson v. FCC
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