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Majority Opinion
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Stevens, J. (announced judgment, with plurality concurring in various parts) |
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Concurring Opinion
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Powell, J. (concurring in part & concurring in the judgment) (joined by Blackmun, J.) |
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Dissenting Opinion
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Brennan, J. (joined by Marshall, J.), & Stewart, J. (joined by Brennan, J., Marshall, J., & White, J.) |
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Lower Court
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Distict of Columbia Court of Appeals |
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Lower Court Ruling
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First Amendment claim sustained |
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Oral Arguments
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Oral Arguments
[Oyez]
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| Lawyers |
Anthony H. Atlas for Morality in Media, Inc.
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Charles M. Firestone filed a brief for the Committee for Open Media
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George E. Reed & Patrick F. Geary for the United States Catholic Conference
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Henry R. Kaufman, Joel M. Gora, Charles Sims, & Bruce J. Ennis for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.
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Irwin Karp for the Authors League of America, Inc.; by James Bouras, Barbara Scott, & Fritz E. Attaway for the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
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J. Roger Wollenberg, Timothy B. Dyk, James A. McKenna, Jr., Carl R. Ramey, Erwin G. Krasnow, Floyd Abrams, J. Laurent Scharff, Corydon B. Dunham, & Howard Monderer for the American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al.
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Paul P. Selvin for the Writers Guild of America, West Inc.
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| News Stories & Commentary |
Brown, Les, "Ferris Says F.C.C. Will Not Act As Censor of Controversial Issues," New York Times, July 23, 1978, p. 24
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Brown, Les, "Court's Decision on Language Stirs Boradcasters," New York Times, July 10, 1978, sect. C, p. 18
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Editorial, Washington Post, "Seven Naughty Words, July 7, 1978, sect. A, p. 18
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Greenhouse, Linda, "Justices Back F.C.C. on Offensive Words," New York Times, July 4, 1978, p. 39
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Mintz, Morton, "FCC "'Dirty Words' Warning is Upheld," Washington Post, July 4, 1978, sect. A, p. 1
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von Hoffman, Nicholas, "Seven Dirty Words: A Cute Form of Censorship," Washington Post, July 29, 1978, sect. E, p. 3
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Will, George F., "Is there a 'Periphery' on the First Amendment?," Washington Post, July 9, 1978, sect. B, p. 7
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| Other |
Barton, R.L., "The Lingering Legacy of Pacifica," 53 Journalism Quarterly 429 (1976)
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Brenner, "Censoring the Airwaves: The Supreme Court's Pacifica Decision," in FREE BUT REGULATED: TRADITIONS IN MEDIA LAW (1982)
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Chemerinsky, Erwin, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: PRINCIPLES & POLICIES (1997), pp. 846-849
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Crigler, John, & Byrnes, William, "Decency Redux: The Curious History of the new FCC Broadcast Indecency Policy," 38 Catholic University Law Review 329 (1989)
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Dickson, Del, THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE (1940-1985): THE PRIVATE DISCUSSIONS BEHIND NEARLY 300 SUPREME COURT DECISIONS (2001), pp. 372-374
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Hilliard, Robert L. and Michael C. Keith, DIRTY DISCOURSE: SEX AND INDECENCY IN BROADCASTING. Blackwell Publishing (2006).
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Huffman, J.L., & Trauth, D.M., "Obscenity, Indecency & the Rehnquist Court," 13 Communications and the Law 3 1991)
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Levi, L., "The Hard Case of Broadcast Indency," 20 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 49 (1992)
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Shiffrin, Steven, THE FIRST AMENDMENT, DEMOCRACY, & ROMANCE (1990), p. 80
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Spitzer, Matthew L., SEVEN DIRTY WORDS & OTHER STORIES (1986)
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Timmer, Joel, "The Seven Dirty Words You Can Say on Cable and DBS: Extending Broadcast Indecency Regulation & The First Amendment," 10 Communications Law & Policy 179-215 (Spring 2005)
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Tribe, Laurence, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2nd ed., 1988), pp. 935-938
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Zuckman, Harvey L., & Corn-Revere, Robert L., et al., MODERN COMMUNICATIONS LAW (1999), pp. 1245-1249
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