Broadcasters are protesting a spate of recent federal indecency fines, arguing in several federal courts that a Mar 15 ruling finding several television programs indecent is inconsistent, vague and unconstitutional. After combing through hundreds of thousands of complaints, many filed by members of the Parents Television Council, for more than 50 non-cable broadcasts aired between Feb 2002 and Mar 2005, the Federal Communications Commission called for fining six programs. Those include an episode of "The Surreal Life 2," a reality show about minor celebrities, which aired in 2004.
The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries levied $7,500 in fines against the Value Motel in Hazel Dell. Inspectors visited the hotel June 1 and issued their findings this month. ---
Despite escalating safety concerns prior to the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, federal regulators never hit the Massey Energy operation with one of their toughest tools: fines of up to $220,000 each for "flagrant" safety violations, officials confirmed this week. Congress gave the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration authority for the increased fines as part of the MINER Act, passed in 2006 following the Sago, Aracoma and Kentucky Darby mine disasters.
Four years to the month after Ohio began enforcing the voter- approved smoking ban, enforcement is plummeting. From May 2007 through the end of April this year, state and local health departments had levied 2,353 fines worth more than $2.2 million to establishments that were found to have violated the ban. But the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Attorney General's office have managed to collect only a third of that, and the collections are declining rapidly, a Dayton Daily News analysis of state data found.
g ONLINE wvgazette.com Read more at http://blogs.wvgazette.com/ coaltattoo Alpha Natural Resources will implement a series of "groundbreaking" safety improvements, while paying tens of millions of dollars in fines related to former Massey Energy operations, under a more than $200 million deal worked out by U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin.
No attention-grabbing $75,000 fines have been handed to James Harrison, and nobody has had $120,000 docked from his paycheck in a span of six weeks as was the case last year. There have been few knockout blows on defenseless receivers and even fewer big-time penalties dished out by the NFL, leading some players to wonder whether the league is finding alternate ways of fining players.
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