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Consumers' Research, et al., Petitioners v. Federal Communications Commission, et al.
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September 10, 2024
Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel told educators the agency will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a recent Fifth Circuit decision against the Universal Service Fund, the federal program that subsidizes telecom service to low-income and hard-to-reach areas.
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July 30, 2024
From Alaska to Arkansas, thousands of rural healthcare clinics rely on internet subsidies from the Federal Communications Commission to provide telehealth services to far-flung or low-income patients. A Fifth Circuit ruling threatens to disrupt services for some living outside urban centers or in healthcare "deserts."
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July 25, 2024
Free-market groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to take another look at their challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's low-income and rural subsidy programs after the Fifth Circuit ruled the system was unconstitutional.
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June 10, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review whether the country's fee-based telecom subsidy system unlawfully delegates taxing powers from Congress to the Federal Communications Commission and a privately run administrator.
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May 21, 2024
Free market groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to review their challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's subsidy programs, saying the Fifth Circuit could create a circuit split "at any time" by rejecting the fee-based system.
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May 06, 2024
The Federal Communications Commission has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to forgo review in two constitutional challenges to the agency's Universal Services Fund brought by free-enterprise groups, arguing that the appeals were filed too early and are based on a speculative circuit split that hasn't formed yet.
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February 09, 2024
Officials from 21 Republican-led states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to torpedo the Federal Communications Commission's system for subsidizing rural telecom and phone services, calling on the justices to grant a request from a free market group to take up its challenge to the FCC's fee structure.
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January 12, 2024
The federal subsidy system that helps pay for rural telecom services and low-income phone discounts could soon face a reckoning before the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to a quartet of near-identical legal challenges to the fees imposed on service providers to raise the funds.
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December 14, 2023
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, in another blow to efforts by free-enterprise groups to have it declared an unlawful delegation of legislative authority.