ABC Television Affiliates Association
Amicus Curiae
Wade H. Hargrove, Counsel of Record ABC TelevisionAffiliates Association is anonprofit tradeassociationwhose members consist of approximately 170local television broadcast stations throughout the country that are affiliated with the ABC Television Network. Wade H. Hargrove is anattorney with the law firm Brooks Pierce. The following is excerpted from theAmicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted tothe U.S. Supreme Court on August 8, 2008. TheUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit concluded that theomnibus remand order, which implemented the Federal Communications Commission’s(FCC) new indecency enforcement policy allowing the proscription of thebroadcast of a single, fleeting expletive, was arbitrary…
