The FCC had sought to reinstate a sweeping policy established under President Obama that was designed to treat internet service as an essential public service, similar to a water or power utility.
Long the source of partisan tensions, the net neutrality rules were repealed in Donald Trump’s first term. President Joe Biden signed a 2021 executive order encouraging the FCC to reinstate them ...
The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC does not have the "statutory authority" to implement net neutrality rules. Since the rules were established in 2015, the FCC argued ...
In his opinion, US circuit judge Richard Allen Griffin wrote that the FCC lacked the authority to impose the net neutrality rules under the "telecommunications service" provision of the Communications ...
The Biden administration’s FCC had considered its reinstatement of the rules on internet service providers a signature accomplishment.
A U.S. Court of Appeals this week ruled that the FCC did not have legal authority to revive the so-called net neutrality rules that were first introduced a decade ago under the Obama Administration.
One of the longest, most technical and, as it turns out, most inconsequential public-policy debates of the 21st-century was ...
The Net Neutrality rules aimed to protect open, free, and fast Internet for all, while opponents questioned federal agency authority and worried ...
Recent Supreme Court rulings protecting Americans from bureaucratic excesses are now bearing fruit. Last week, a federal ...
The courts are slowly catching up with the many illegal Biden Administration rules, and on Thursday the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals cleaned up after the Federal Communications Commission’s ...
Now that a federal appeals court has effectively ended the debate by striking down the FCC’s net neutrality rules, it’s worth asking what we’ve learned. If you have forgotten the sequence of ...