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ac·tion·a·ble

 (ăk′shə-nə-bəl)
adj.
1. Giving cause for legal action: an actionable statement.
2. Relating to or being information that allows a decision to be made or action to be taken.
3. Capable of being put into practice: proposed several actionable measures to reduce the federal deficit.

ac′tion·a·bly adv.
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(33) This order reiterated that under the second prong of the patently offensive test, "fleeting and isolated" expletives were not actionably indecent.
230% 2320 (2012) (holding that because the FCC failed to give Fox or ABC fair notice prior to the broadcasts in question, fleeting expletives and momentary nudity could be found actionably indecent, and the Commission's standards as applied to said broadcasts were unconstitutionally vague); see also FCC v.
Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that the regulatory history "makes it apparent that the Commission policy in place at the time of the broadcasts gave no notice to Fox or ABC that a fleeting expletive or a brief shot of nudity could be actionably indecent; yet Fox and ABC were found to be in violation." The Court unanimously concluded that the lack of prior notice rendered the FCC's standards impermissibly vague in these instances.