A clip of Janet Jackson’s offending “malfunction.”
By Laura Mojonnier
Associated Press reported today that a US federal appeals court dismissed a $550,000 indecency fine issued to CBS after Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Superbowl halftime show.
According to the AP, the three-judge panel ruled earlier today that the Federal Communications Commission “acted arbitrarily and capriciously” when issuing the fine, as “CBS’s broadcast of a nine-sixteenths of one second glimpse of a bare female breast” did not meet the commission’s long held standards for “actionable indecency.”