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NEWS ABOUT: indecency

indecency stories: 17 news summaries

 Sudan Woman Tried for Pants 
 Gets Fined, Not Flogged 

Lubna Hussein plans appeal to country's constitutional court

Sep 7, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Sudanese woman arrested in July for wearing pants has been fined around $200 but will not receive the 40 lashes once threatened, CNN reports. Lubna Hussein, an erstwhile UN worker who resigned in order to waive immunity and challenge her prosecution, says she will not pay the fine and... More »

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Sudan • women's rights • indecency • appeal • pants • constitutionality • verdict • fine • flogging • Lubna Hussein

 Bill Would Keep ED Ads 
 Off TV at Most Hours 

Viagra, Cialis ads could be restricted to between 10 pm and 6 am

May 4, 09 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - A bill proposed in the House would ban advertising for drugs to treat erectile dysfunction from airing in the daytime and prime time, the Hill reports. The “Families for ED Advertising Decency Act” would confine such “indecent” advertising to between 10pm and 6am. Under the bill, the makers... More »

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Congress • erectile dysfunction • indecency • House of Representatives • Viagra • Cialis • advertisements

(Newser) - The Supreme Court today ordered a federal appeals court to consider reinstating a fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction, the AP reports. The appeals court had ruled that the glimpse of Jackson’s breast, which lasted nine-sixteenths of a second, should have been considered “... More »

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CBS • FCC • Super Bowl • indecency • Janet Jackson • wardrobe malfunction • US Supreme Court

Bird-Flipping Globes Could Cost NBC With Feds

Wrestler director Aronofsky's on-air gesture may be worst violation

Jan 15, 09 10:34 AM CST
(Newser) - The decency police are on NBC’s tail for Sunday’s obscenity-speckled Golden Globes. The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing the program after receiving 18 complaints, the Los Angeles Times reports. The most flagrant violation was probably when The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky jokingly flipped off actor Mickey Rourke as... More »

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television • NBC • FCC • indecency • Tina Fey • award show • Communications Decency Act • Golden Globes • network television • Mickey Rourke • Darren Aronofsky

 Apple: No iBoobs for iPhone 

Ruins Christmas for geeks everywhere

Dec 24, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Apple has ruined Christmas for geeks everywhere, denying them an intensely useful iPhone application called iBoobs. Apple rejected iBoobs from its app store, saying it contained “objectionable content.” The program allowed iPhone users to shake their phones to jiggle a virtual pair of breasts. Apple encouraged the developer... More »

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iPhone • Apple • indecency • iPhone applications

Brits Sentenced for 
Dubai Beach Sex

Vacationing couple slapped with 3-month sentences for sand snuggle

Oct 16, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British couple has been slapped with a three-month sentence for a drunken roll in the sand on a Dubai beach, the Guardian reports. Prosecutors say the pair—an expatriate woman and a visiting businessman—were spotted having sex on the beach after meeting each other at a champagne brunch... More »

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beach • indecency • sex • Dubai • United Arab Emirates • public sex

 Court Tosses Super Bowl Fine 

Federal panel says FCC acted capriciously with $550K penalty

Jul 21, 08 1:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal appeals court today threw out the FCC $550,000 fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s infamous 2004 “wardrobe malfunction.” The decency watchdogs were found to have acted arbitrarily in changing their policy of not punishing fleeting nudity, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The court separately said... More »

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television • FCC • nudity • indecency • Janet Jackson • Justin Timberlake • wardrobe malfunction

Justice Dept. Sues Fox
Over Raunchy
Reality Show

Latest round in indecency battle

Apr 5, 08 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department has stepped in to force Fox to pay up $56,000 in indecency fines levied by the FCC but challenged by the broadcaster, Variety reports. Eight Fox-owned stations are being sued to collect fines for a 2003 episode of "Married by America" that featured men at... More »

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television • reality TV • Department of Justice • FCC • indecency • Fox • broadcasting

Fox Thumbs Nose at $91K FCC Fine

Calls indecency ruling on strippers 'arbitrary and capricious'

Mar 25, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Think strippers and whipped cream is indecent? Pshaw, says Fox, which wants the FCC to drop a $91,000 indecency fine for a 2003 episode of “Married by America” in which contestants at rowdy parties licked whipped cream off topless strippers. The network originally was fined $1.2 million,... More »

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FCC • indecency • Fox • stripper

 Supremes to Weigh
 On-Air Swearing 

Fox battles the FCC in next big court case

Mar 17, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court might take up a gavel in one hand and a bar of soap in the other next term, when it considers a case challenging the FCC’s “fleeting utterances” standards, it announced today. The FCC is appealing a lower-court ruling—which arose when Cher dropped an... More »

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television • CBS • FCC • indecency • Janet Jackson • profanity • Fox • wardrobe malfunction • US Supreme Court • constitutionality • swearing

ABC Faces
Hefty FCC Fine for Bare Bottom

Stiff penalty a sign that group is reviving its anti-indecency crusade

Jan 26, 08 2:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The airing of a woman’s bare bottom almost five years ago could cost ABC $1.43 million, if the FCC gets its way. The media watchdog levied the maximum penalty last night against the Disney-owned broadcaster for a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue. The stiff penalty is a sign... More »

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television • FCC • ABC • indecency • First Amendment • NYPD Blue

'Wardrobe Malfunction' Busts Into Court

CBS challenges FCC
fine for Jackson Super Bowl mishap

Sep 12, 07 6:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Almost 4 years after Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show, a federal appeals court is being asked to decide whether the incident was indecent or a fluke. The FCC fined CBS $550,000; the network argues the penalty is out of line. It's also having... More »

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CBS • FCC • indecency • Janet Jackson • Justin Timberlake • wardrobe malfunction

Short Skirt Doesn't Fly
at Southwest

'Family' airline asked co-ed to change
out of revealing attire

Sep 8, 07 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A San Diego co-ed (and Hooters employee) nearly got kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for showing too much skin. A  flight attendant called Kyla Ebbert to the front of the plane and asked her to change out of her 'revealing attire' or take a later flight. Ebbert brokered a... More »

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indecency • clothes • airline • Southwest Airlines • attire • short skirt • Kyla Ebbert • Today show

Letting It All Hang Out? Bill Would Put It All Back In

Atlanta proposal calls saggy pants "major concern;" ACLU claims "racial profiling"

Aug 23, 07 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Young men will want to hike up their sagging pants, and women cover up bra straps and exposed thongs if Atlanta’s City Council adopts a proposal to amend the city’s indecency laws, the Journal-Constitution reports. The measure, which would fine violators for exposing boxer shorts, thongs and bras,... More »

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Atlanta • dress code • ACLU • Louisiana • indecency • First Amendment • culture • pants • Delcambre • hip-hop

Bottoms Up!
La. Town Gets Down and Dirty

Ban on saggy pants
hits fashion plates below the belt

Jun 14, 07 6:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - In Delcambre, La., showing your skivvies is about to come with criminal consequences, thanks to a new ordinance that prohibits residents from wearing low-hanging pants. Saggy-trousered offenders may be fined $500 and risk 6 months in jail. “They’re better off taking the pants off and just wearing a... More »

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fashion • race • Louisiana • indecency • discrimination • indecent exposure • baggy pants • pants • Delcambre

Appeals Court Rejects FCC Decency Rules

Broadcasters can't be punished for airing "fleeting expletives" 

Jun 5, 07 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Networks that accidentally air profanity got a major break from a US appeals court yesterday when the court  shot down an FCC regulation that punishes them for airing even "fleeting expletives." The court said some of the FCC's indecency rules were "divorced from reality" and sent them... More »

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television • FCC • censorship • Super Bowl • indecency • US Appeals court • appeal • Nicole Ritchie • Cher • Billboard Music awards • Janet Jackson • nipple slip • Fox

Presidential Peck Sets Off Iranian Sex Scandal

A kiss on the hand lands Ahmadinejad
in hot water with hard-liners

May 2, 07 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at the center of an unlikely sex scandal today, after being caught on camera kissing the hand—even if it was gloved—of a retired schoolteacher. Ahmadinejad's sexy faux pas, at a ceremony honoring the country's teachers, is a violation of Shariah law, hard-liners say. More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • sex scandal • women's rights • indecency • sex • Islamic Sharia law • scandal

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