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The Playboy Company, which primarily deals with sexually explicit adult material, has numerous television outlets. ... Playboy television is provided by the Spice Entertainment Companies, Inc. ...
The plaintiffs of this case were the United States of America, Janet Reno, Attorney General, the United States Department of Justice, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The defendants were Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. ...
Playboy filed its case on February 26, 1996 “seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the operation of Section 505. The complaint alleged that Section 505 violates Playboy’s rights under the First Amendment and the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment” (USDOJ 5). The First Amendment states that, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.” Playboy believed that the Communications Decency Act section 505 limited their right to free speech because it was now censored. ...
On November 8, 1996, the district court of Delaware denied Playboy and Spice a motion for a preliminary (summary) judgment. ... The court said that time channeling was extremely restrictive because 30%-50% of Playboy’s viewers viewed prior to 10 pm. ... The order did not contain any requirement that Playboy include “adequate notice” provisions in its contracts with cable operators. Nor did it limit the scope of the injunction to Playboy, which is the only programmer of sexually explicit broadcasting that remains a party to this lawsuit” (USDOJ 7). ... The first was to change the judgment to apply only to Playboy. ... ”
“On March 18, 1999, the district court dismissed the government’s two motions, stating that it “lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate these motions due to subsequent filing of Defentants’ notice of appeal to the United States Supreme Court” (USDOJ 7).
Approximate Word count = 1222
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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