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• Thursday, November 20, 2008 06:37 PM

  Yo!, jeb

  When the USDOJ says "prompt" they mean it!

  They mean as soon as the SG (solicitor general) and the other DOJ lawyers can get around to it!

  But be reasonable, your Jebsterness.

  Habeas, shmabeas? They've got other, bigger, fish to fry, first, you know?

  You know, stuff that really can't wait:cert. petition they filed this week:

  In the Supreme Court of the United States
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  FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
  AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PETITIONERS

  v.

  CBS CORPORATION, CBS BROADCASTING, INC.,
  CBS TELEVISION STATIONS, INC., CBS STATIONS
  GROUP OF TEXAS L.P., AND KUTV HOLDINGS, INC.
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  PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
  ___

  GREGORY G. GARRE
  Solicitor General
  Counsel of Record

  GREGORY G. KATSAS
  Assistant Attorney General

  MALCOLM L. STEWART
  Deputy Solicitor General

  ERIC D. MILLER
  Assistant to the Solicitor General

  THOMAS M. BONDY
  Attorney, Department of Justice
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  QUESTION PRESENTED

  Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Federal Communications Commission acted arbitrarily and capriciously under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 551 et seq., in determining that the most widely viewed broadcast of public nudity in television history fell within the federal prohibitions on broadcast indecency.

  [...]

  This case arises from the February 1, 2004, broadcast of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. [...]

  [...]

  —sysprog Read sysprog's other letters
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