Sable Communications of California, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commn.

Sable Communications of California, Inc. (SCC) (plaintiff) offered sexually oriented prerecorded phone messages over the Pacific Bell network; a 1988 amendment to the Communications Act banned both obscene and indecent interstate commercial telephone messages outright. SCC sued the FCC (defendant) in district court, arguing the ban on indecent messages violated the First Amendment; the district court upheld the obscenity ban but struck the indecency ban, and SCC appealed to the Supreme Court.