Woman sues over Janet Jackon's breast

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Tennessee woman has filed a class action suit against Janet Jackson and others involved in her breast-baring Super Bowl halftime show, saying millions of people are owed monetary damages for exposure to lewd conduct.

The suit, filed earlier this week in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, also names pop star Justin Timberlake, who performed with Jackson, CBS Broadcasting, show producer MTV Networks Enterprises, and the parent of those two companies, Viacom.

The action seeks a court order to prevent anything like last Sunday's stunt from being repeated on U.S. network television prior to 10 p.m. local time when children might be watching.

No dollar figure for damages is mentioned in the suit, but it estimates that over 80 million U.S. viewers might be due compensation. CBS has said the game drew an average viewership of just under 89.6 million people. Advertising during the game sold for more than $2 million (1.1 million pounds) a spot.

The suit states that the ultimate compensatory damage figure, should a jury decide to grant damages, should be no higher than what the parties being sued made out of participating in and airing the Super Bowl and its halftime show.

If additional punitive damages are granted, it adds, they should be no higher than the "gross annual revenues of each defendant for the last three years..."

Those figures would probably run into the billions of dollars, according to the Smoking Gun, a Web site that first published the court papers.

During the halftime show Timberlake tore off half of Jackson's black leather bustier, exposing her right breast, while the two were singing a duet.

Jackson took the blame but said "it was not my intention that it go as far as it did."

CBS has already said it would use an "enhanced delay" on its February 8 broadcast of music's Grammy Awards so it can censor both audio and video as needed, and ABC also said it will use a delay on its February 29 broadcast of the Academy Awards (news - web sites).

The suit says the defendants knew the broadcast would be watched by millions of families with children but they "included in the halftime show sexually explicit acts solely designed to garner publicity and ultimately to increase profits for themselves. The suit mentions the breast exposure but also says the show in general contained "other lewd and sexually explicit conduct."

The law firm handling the suit issued a statement on Friday saying that neither the woman who filed it, Terri Carlin, nor her attorney, Wayne Ritchie, would comment. "The issue here is accountability and not more publicity," it said.
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Chen Kenichi · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 4:47 pm Post subject:

Utterly retarded. Stuff like this makes me lose faith in humanity.
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[HALO]MasterChief · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject:

omg a boob. america's children will never be able to live normal lives because of this. so the only way to make them forget about it and let them live normal lives is to pay them.

wow that is so stupid.
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Stevo · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject:

There are lawsuits about everything now. No one deserves any money over this. Even if they were disturbed by this, what is money going to do?
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Spanish Warpig · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject:

stuff like that makes me want to hurt people. cause honestly who f*^$ing cares not like they wont see it in the future anyway.
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Replica · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject:

this is almost as absurd as the person that tried to claim rights and royalties from the jpeg.

if people don't want their kids to see boobs tell them to cancel their internet too.... gawd.

anarchy burger... hold the governemt ( lol its palying i had to say it)
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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject:

God Bless America

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KillerRoofcutter · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject:

Wow big deal.. It happened so what it was by MTV what would u expect?? and plus SOOOOOOOOOO WHAT ABOUT IT LOL hey and maybe it was the KIDS who were watchign the superbowl... u would probaly be able to find it there anyways. Well to make it simple for what htis says...... WHO CARES ANYWAYS?
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Paddyjack · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

I see more flesh when looking at women's dresses (or lack of) at the Oscar ceremony....

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Replica · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:

i'mg onna sue the discovery channel. i totally saw some nippage prior to 10 pm the other day... ohh the humanity!!!
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Turbo! · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:36 am Post subject:

pfft stupid ppl. stuff like this makes me ashamed to be an american. this is the way the rest of the world views us. would this happen in any other country? probably not. OMG a boob!!!!!! gimme a break. if kids were watching, a resonsible parent would have made them stop watching that crappy halftime show long before the "wardrobe malfunction" occurred.

jackson and timberlake should file a countersuit for wasting their time.
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DaKon · Ville Supporter Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 2342

Boobs..big deal. I bet this lady was not even breast fed and still is angry.
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Chan · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:50 am Post subject:

"This just in, no one cares!"

h8

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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:08 am Post subject:

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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