JACKSON’S ‘WARDROBE MALFUNCTION’ FINE RECONSIDERED
JANET JACKSON’s infamous Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction is hitting headl= ines again - U.S. judges are re-examining the $550,000 (=C2=A3343,750) fi= ne initially levelled at America’s CBS TV network.
CBS bosses aired the half-time performance at the 2004 American footbal= l game, during which Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Jackson’s top t= o reveal an almost bare breast.
The original indecency case was thrown out on the grounds the breast-ba= ring incident, which lasted nine-sixteenths of a second, was too fleeting= to warrant a fine.
But the issue returned to court last May (09), when a U.S. Supreme Cour= t judge asked for the fine to be reconsidered, directing officials at the= 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to re-op= en the investigation.
Proceedings to consider whether the Federal Communications Commission (= FCC) fine is permissible began on Tuesday (23Feb10).
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