June 29, 2017
Telecommunications action for the rest of the year will mostly be about the Federal Communications Commission's policy moves, but the agency also continues to fend off several legal challenges and one case could have an impact on the jurisdictional lines between the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission. Here are the top cases to watch for the second half of the year.
June 26, 2017
The focus for telecommunications so far this year has mostly been on the newly Republican-led Federal Communications Commission and not courtroom drama, but courts have also already made decisions related to net neutrality and the limits of FCC authority. Here are the top telecom cases so far in 2017.
May 01, 2017
The D.C. Circuit on Monday denied requests for full court rehearing of a panel decision upholding the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 open internet rules, issuing the order days after new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai floated a draft plan to strip them.
March 15, 2017
The long wait for a D.C. Circuit ruling on whether to reconsider its earlier decision upholding the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules is likely part of a broader holding pattern across the government as power shifts to Republicans, with the GOP in this case likely to revisit or scrap the rules, experts say.
October 04, 2016
Netflix and Dish Network Corp., alongside other companies and advocates intervening in a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, blasted on Monday a push for the full D.C. Circuit to rehear a case that the FCC won, saying there is no conflict with precedent and the legal questions are ordinary.
October 03, 2016
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday told the D.C. Circuit that it should refuse a full court rehearing of a challenge to the FCC's net neutrality rules, saying the panel that upheld them in June reached the correct result after giving the arguments a "full and fair hearing."
October 05, 2015
A coalition of major telecommunications industry actors repeated its call to the D.C. Circuit on Monday to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order, which the industry said contradicted the Communications Act and the agency's own previous judgment.
September 22, 2015
A diverse group of Internet stakeholders added their voices to the defense of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, telling the D.C. Circuit on Monday that the agency's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service is supported by common sense.
September 21, 2015
The challengers of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules urged the D.C. Circuit to dismiss a petition that pushes for more Internet regulation, saying Monday that Full Service Network lacks standing in its attack on the FCC's forbearance of additional regulation.
September 21, 2015
Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-Calif., and 27 members of Congress voiced their support for the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules, telling the D.C. Circuit in an amicus brief Monday that the agency properly reclassified broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service.