Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates December 2008 No. 10 Vol. 11
National Religious Broadcasters

Broadcast Indecency

The Networks Challenge the FCC

National Religious Broadcasters

Amicus Curiae

Craig L. Parshall, Counsel of Record NationalReligious Broadcasters is a nonprofit membership organization that represents the interests of Christianbroadcasters throughout the nation. Craig L.Parshall operates a private law practice in Winchester, Virginia. The followingis excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brieffor the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 6, 2008.   Thecourt of appeals’ opinion failed to grant the Federal Communications Commission(FCC), a Federal agency, the deference and latitude that is required when aFederal court reviews the policies of an agency that are promulgated within thescope of its administrative authority. The court imposed a requirement that theFCC…

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