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Constitutional Challenges Broadband Telecommunications

Perkins Coie

Fifth Circuit Shocks Telecom Industry by Overturning the FCC’s Universal Service Fund

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently ruled in a closely divided 9-7 en banc decision that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) method of funding the Universal Service Fund (USF) is an...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Consumers’ Research Universal Service Litigation Nears Inflection Point

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The Fifth and D.C. Circuit federal appellate courts are now poised to issue pivotal decisions in the ongoing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the FCC’s universal service support mechanisms. Their opinions will...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Fifth Circuit Rehearing USF Contributions Challenge En Banc

The legal battles over the constitutionality of Universal Service Fund (USF) contributions continue as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted a request for the full court to re-hear a challenge to the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Open Internet Order Prevails

Addressing challenges to the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) 2015 Open Internet Order, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the FCC acted with proper authority when it...more

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