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Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

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The activist, results-driven Supreme Court appears ready to limit severely the ability of the Federal Communications Commission and other independent regulatory agencies to interpret ambiguous statutory language and answer essential questions about statutory meaning, even when vastly changing markets and technologies makes such work essential.

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Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

Telefrieden

A doctrinal and wrong-headed insistence on legislative clarity, ironically could prevent the FCC from improving regulations and make them better in light of fast changing technological and marketplace conditions. 1, 47-87 (2015); [link]. See Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, CC Docket No. Lastly (I hope!),

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Does the Supreme Court Conservative Majority Want to Prevent Regulatory Agencies from Responding to Technological Innovation and Changed Circumstances?

Telefrieden

Having done so previously, the FCC recently restored the application of Title II telecommunications service, common carrier to Internet access. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., link] , ΒΆ153-186. See MCI Telecommunications Corp. 218 (1994); [link].