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The We Don’t Want to Pay for Universal Telecommunications Access Litigants Finally Hit Paydirt

Telefrieden

The 5 th Circuit En Banc decision reeks of partisan, doctrinal overreach. Now that universal surface funding has substantially increased to support broadband access, the right-wing rails against so-called Obama Phones and unconstitutional taxation.

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A Year of Challenges for the Universal Service Fund

Broadband Breakfast

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declared, in a 9 to 7 en banc decision, that the USF’s funding mechanism unconstitutional in a potentially consequential case brought by Consumers’ Research. In July , the U.S.

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Sixth Circuit Denies Rehearing in Net Neutrality Challenge

Broadband Breakfast

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied public interest groups’ petition for rehearing en banc Tuesday, leaving in place its earlier decision that struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s Title II net neutrality rules “The petition was circulated to the full court.

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High Court Watcher: SCOTUS Might Not Want to Upend Universal Service

Broadband Breakfast

“Adding the question thus suggests that at least some justices are looking for a way, on their own, to wipe away the en banc Fifth Circuit’s ruling without even reaching” the legal question at the heart of the case, he wrote.  That’s the percentage of interstate voice revenue telecoms pay into the fund.

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Lawyers Backing FCC Cautiously Optimistic Ahead of Supreme Court USF Case Showdown

Broadband Breakfast

  The coalition and its allies prevailed in the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits, but lost in the Fifth Circuit’s en banc ruling, creating the circuit split that prompted the Supreme Court to take up the case.

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