Friday, October 3, 2008 9:35 PM CDT
Eastern alum to speak about famous media cases Tuesday
By the JG/T-C
editorial@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON — First Amendment attorney Robert Corn-Revere, a Mattoon native, will discuss the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” and other media cases Tuesday at Eastern Illinois University.
Corn-Revere’s appearance is at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Lumpkin Auditorium at EIU.
Corn-Revere, who is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the Davis Wright Tremaine law firm, was called into the case the day after the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show featuring Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson caused a national uproar. Corn-Revere won a victory for CBS when a federal appeals court threw out a $550,000 indecency fine for Jackson’s breast-baring “wardrobe malfunction.”
In his talk, which is free and open to the public, Corn-Revere will discuss threats to press and broadcast freedom in the United States.
He served as lead counsel in United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, a case in which the Supreme Court invalidated part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a violation of the First Amendment. He was also lead counsel in Huminski v. Corsones, a case in which the courts established the First Amendment right of individuals to observe court proceedings. He was lead counsel again in Mainstream Loudoun v. Loudoun County Library Board of Trustees, in which the courts held that mandatory content filtering of public library Internet terminals violates the First Amendment.
And Corn-Revere successfully petitioned Gov. George Pataki to grant the first posthumous pardon in New York history to the late comedian Lenny Bruce.
An adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute in Washington, Corn-Revere is a co-author of the three-volume treatise Modern Communications Law, published in 1999. Corn-Revere was at the Federal Communications Commission from 1989 to 1994 and served as chief counsel to former FCC Chairman James Quello.
A journalism and speech major at EIU, Corn-Revere graduated in 1977, going on to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America, where he has since served as an adjunct law professor.
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