Legal Opinion

United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 22, 2000No. 98-1682PublishedCited by 915 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy

This case presents a challenge to § 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-104,110 Stat. 136,47 U. S. C. § 561 (1994 ed., Supp. III). Section 505 requires cable television operators who provide channels “primarily dedicated to sexually-oriented programming” either to “fully scramble or otherwise fully block” those channels or to limit their transmission to hours when children are unlikely to be viewing,

' set by administrative regulation as the time between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. 47 U. S. C. § 561(a) (1994 ed., Supp. Ill); 47 CFR § 76.227 (1999). Even before enactment of the…

2Cases cited23 opinions

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