A U.S. appeals court threw out Wednesday a federal agency's decision to fine CBS Corp television stations $550,000 for airing singer Janet Jackson's ''wardrobe malfunction'' during the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast.
A divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said that in imposing the fine, the Federal Communications Commission ''arbitrarily and capriciously'' departed from prior policy that exempted ''fleeting'' indecency from sanctions.
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