Justice Seeks Supreme Nod for '505'.

Multichannel News, April, 1999 by HEARN, TED

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 1996 federal law that requires cable operators to scramble adult programming or to air such networks late at night when children won't be watching TV. The law, fought from the outset by Playboy Entertainment Group Inc., was declared in violation of the First Amendment in December by a three-judge federal panel sitting in Wilmington, Del.

In an April 19 filing with the Supreme Court, the DOJ said the scrambling law was consistent with the First Amendment, claiming that the lower court should be reversed mainly because it required the government to meet too high a legal burden in its defense of the law. The DOJ filed what's called a jurisdictional statement -...

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