Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates December 2008 No. 10 Vol. 11
Time Warner Inc.

Broadcast Indecency

The Networks Challenge the FCC

Time Warner Inc.

Amicus Curiae

Christopher Landau, Counsel of Record Time Warner Inc. is a leading global media and entertainmentcompany with businesses in cable television networks, cable systems, filmedentertainment, interactive services, and publishing media. Christopher Landau is a partner with the law firm Kirkland &Ellis. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 8, 2008.   TimeWarner fully supports Respondents’ constitutional arguments, which establishthat the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new policy on “fleetingexpletives violates the First Amendment as applied to broadcast speech. Itfollows a fortiori that such a policywould violate the First…

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