Going To The Supreme Court!
Filed under: Janet Jackson > Legal Matters
The U.S. government is asking the Supreme Court to review Miss Nasty's epic wardrobe malfunction of 2004 and reimpose the half million dollars fined to CBS.
The Supreme Court may or may not consider the request.
As y'all recall Justin Timberlake somehow "accidentally" exposed one of Janet Jackson's boobies on live television during the Superbowl half-time show, resulting in a big fuss. We were more weirded out by her nipple jewelry!
The FCC shook its fist and slapped CBS with a $550,000 fine. But, after 3 years embroiled in legal bickering, a federal court ruled that the network could not be held accountable for a dumb publicity student. Or accident. Whatever you wanna call it.
Semantics!
The government is now asking the Supreme Court to consider "whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the federal communications commission acted arbitrarily and capriciously (…) in determining that the most widely viewed broadcast public nudity in television history fell within the federal prohibitions on broadcast indecency."
Really? 4 years later?
They must be bored.
[Image via WENN.]
bitch was botched!
I named my band "Janet's Tit".
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"a dumb publicity student"
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WTG Perez… you're right on top of that.
*yawns!
OMG, what ridiculousness. My daughter who was 2 at the time "said boobie" at the screen. She's not damaged for life.
Like they have nothing better to do?
HOOOOOORAYYYYY FOR BOOBIES!!!!!!.Who knew they can cause trouble?.Dirty!.
You know… because tax dollars should be paying for courts to be open and hearing issues that were already handled… not like we're facing economic destruction or anything.
Ugh.
Wow, what a waste of time. To think of all the other important shit going in in the world, this makes me ill. Waste of fucking time!
speaking of arbitrarily and capriciously, how about some more Founding Fathers stories bent to shape your opinions. You know, like Alexander Hamilton being "firmly behind" (if you know what I mean) a "wide open and perhaps gaping" interpretation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights?
signed
just got oddly excited
R U SERIOUS??? UNLESS YOU HAVE TIVO YOU COULDN'T SEE SHIT!!! GET OVER IT ALREADY!! PEOPLE ARE DAMN NEAR SHOOTING PORN IN SOME OF THESE SOAP OPERAS AND SITCOMS AND I DON'T HEAR THEM SAYING SHIT ABOUT THAT!!!!
The Supreme Court needs to be handling other things. Not this 'has been'.
its her damn fault for wearing shit titty tape.
What shit.
They are just manic for money right now.
Titties should be a requirement for all television broadcasts.
There was nothing wrong with that friggin performance. OMG This is absurd
Would have she really been wearing nipple jewelry if that whole ordeal was truly an accident?
you meant publicty stunt right? not publicty student.It gets a little annoying when you have to backpeddle when your reading somthing
UUGGHH!!
it is almost impossible to believe that your government is spending your money on prosecuting a network for broadcasting the broadcasting of a breast.
your government are, ironically, a bunch of tits.
After 4 yrs, this shit is still being spoken about….
…thankfully taxpayers money doesn't subsidise this kind of time wasting.
I *HEART* TITTIES!!!!
TITTIES!
Re: harrybalsac thinks ur an asshole! – haha
NO, THEY NEED MONEY! CONGRESS IS PISSING OUT MONEY LEFT AND RIGHT.
I agree on the nipple ring, that was a BIG one!! What a waste of taxpayers money, forget about it, I have.
I hope the Supreme Court orders her boob to be cut off and fed to wild pigs so that I can masturbate to her new look.
obviously you don't know much about the law. It takes time to appeal cases. I hope the Court does not take this case and deals with real issues.
I wasn't as near as freaked out by the nipple shield as I was by the way that titty just flopped out. It was gross.
WHAT A FUCKING WASTE OF MY TAXES!!!!
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Don't we have like a ginormous deficit? Stupid prudes, wasting money since the Clinton scandal, gay marriage, now this? They should be made pay the bill, not us.
you must be kidding me agian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: BBD hates everyone! – wow you are a smart person?>!?!?!?!!?!
What a GREAT WAY to use tax dollars! Our government is fucking genius. OMG, we saw a breast (albeit a scary, deformed breast)! The world is going to end!
Sooo stupid… she didn't do it on purpose, and even if she did CBS didn't have a damn thing to do with it.
Your country is SICK! The economy falls to pieces, you re in costly and hideous WARS abroad - and your Supreme Court is dealing with NIPPLES??????????????????? Lmao….
settle down ! !
we do need
more boobie
action on tv.
Is fun and
entertaining !
Let her be
and fyi
everyone
should get
naked ! ! !
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the supreme court needs to deal with more fuckin serious problems than this
who cares about a tit on TV…..???????
I do care about this bitch being so fucking lazy that she has to cancel every time i buy tickets to see her show…..(twice!!!!!!!!!!)
fuck you janet……and fuck your brother too (well he's fucked anyhow)!!!
Arggghhh - FOUR years?? Do you know how much attorneys' fees are involved in a protracted FOUR YEAR legal battle??!?!? Far, FAR more than the measley (comparatively!!) $1/2m fine. This is ABSURD!! No wonder our government and economy are crashing - people are IDIOTS! The fact that stupid "nipplegate" made the US the laughing stock of the world is bad enough!! The government is STUPID beyond words for pursuing this… it's a damn waste of taxpayers money!
SO LET'S SEE….
4 YEARS LATER, THEY'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT MISS JACKSON, AND MOST LIKELY WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO IN THE FUTURE.
4 YEARS LATER NOBODY'S TALKING ABOUT THE SHITNEY/WHOREDONNA KISS, OR EITHER ONE OF THEM FOR THAT MATTER.
WHO REALLY HAD THE DUMB PUBLICITY STUNT HERE?
"They must be bored." It's not like the country has anything important to do. Like our 4 wars(remember the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs"?), recession, unemployment at its highest in 26 years, a new pres, immigration, gay/lesbian rights…….. there's more, but need I go on?
Dont they have better things to worry about? The economy is in the shitter, and they are worried about a nipple falling out of someones shirt 4 years ago? WTF
The last time the Supremes heard an obscenity case, they had to review the evidence over and over for days on end. Do you think Janet will catch a cold displaying the evidence for that long? Ginsberg wants to get a good look and cross examine the evidence. This is going to get interesting.
Get over it already-her tit was on TV, big deal!
Get over it, thats so tiered!!
I'm still amazed that Justin Timberlake continued to claim his innocence in this whole thing, saying he "didn't know anything" and had nothing to do with anything and that it was all Janet, when he was THE ONE WHO RIPPED IT OFF. Unbelievable. I actually feel bad for Janet. She did a lot of NSYNC and Justin's career, giving them big breaks as opening acts on her tour before they hit it big and appearing on Justin's solo album and that was the thanks she got. Wow. Justin is SUCH an immature little boy and it's amazing that this took her career in a downspiral when she has more talent in her little finger than he has in his whole body and of course he apologized profusely to the media and got of scott free. Sexist little society we live in.
That sucks and it's stupid, these people should build a bridge and get the fuck over it. Funny thing is wasn't it justin who had some involvement in this situation. People are always gonna blame the women.
god what a waste. whos payin for this ?
god why do some people get so horrified over a female BREAST! 50% of the population has them! and the other 50% has a smaller version. Seriously, it pisses me off as a woman how "dirty" a part of my anatomy is viewed by some prudes. Get over it! Men expose their tits all the time and its no big deal! But Janet has to pay out b/c men sexualize her 2 lumps of mammory gland fat.
God this is fucking OLD! What the fuck is wrong with you people in the States? It was a NIPPLE a fucking NIPPLE…………….
Bring on the boobies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has your Supreme ,(looking "Supremely" stupid), Court got nothing better to do with its supremely expensive time?
Re: magnolia – LOL
LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH……………………………………
I was more weirded out by how saggy her boob was.
I really don't think a network should be fined for accidents. Or for publicity stunts that performers pull during live broadcasts.