Parent Television Council, Amicus Curiae
Robert R. Sparks, Jr., Counsel of Record
Parents Television Council is a 1.1 million-member nonprofit organization founded in 1995 with a stated goal of improving the content of entertainment programming on prime-time television. Robert R. Sparks, Jr. is a founding partner of the law firm Sparks & Craig. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 14, 2011. The FCC’s enforcement regime does not affect whether Respondents can broadcast expletives or titillating bathroom scenes involving children and nude women; it is about when they can do so. The FCC’s enforcement efforts are aimed…