California Broadcasters Association, Georgia Broadcasters Association, et al.
Amici Curiae
Kathleen M. Sullivan, Counsel of Record California BroadcastersAssociation and Georgia Broadcasters Association are joined in this brief bynine other State associations of broadcasters. Kathleen M. Sullivan is aprofessor at Stanford Law School. The following is excerpted from theAmicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted tothe U.S. Supreme Court on August 8, 2008. Onpain of fines of $325,000 per incident, radio and television stations acrossthe Nation are now forced by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC)fleeting expletives policy to engage in expensive monitoring and policing oflive broadcasts lest a stray Anglo-Saxon word slip out, no matter how isolatedand no matter…
