{"id":34648,"date":"2022-05-05T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/?p=34648"},"modified":"2024-12-12T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:22:34","slug":"internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Service Providers Drop California Net Neutrality Lawsuit, But Nationwide Rules Still Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night, broadband providers suing California over its <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular net neutrality law<\/a> officially dropped their suit. Their action follows a refusal by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the court\u2019s decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ACA_Connects_v_Bonta_Ninth_Circuit_Opinion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>ACA Connects v. Bonta<\/em><\/a>, rejecting yet another attempt by broadband providers to overturn California\u2019s net neutrality law. <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-users-score-major-victory-as-appellate-court-upholds-california-net-neutrality-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Earlier this year<\/a>, the court issued its opinion and determined the California consumer protection law could go into effect. Public Knowledge and other consumer groups filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/public-interest-aca-connects-v-bonta-amicus-brief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amicus brief<\/a> in this case last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following can be attributed to John Bergmayer, Legal Director at Public Knowledge:<br><br>\u201cAfter a string of defeats, including failing to convince a single judge on the 9th Circuit to vote to rehear their case, the group of internet service providers suing to overturn California&#8217;s net neutrality law has realized its efforts are futile. This is great news, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/tell-congress-to-save-net-neutrality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">effort to enact net neutrality rules nationwide<\/a> must continue. The Senate must act to ensure we have a full Federal Communications Commission that can restore these important consumer protections for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadband providers suing California over its popular net neutrality law have officially dropped their suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":25528,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-34648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-net-neutrality"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Internet Service Providers Drop California Net Neutrality Lawsuit, But Nationwide Rules Still Needed - Public Knowledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Broadband providers suing California over its popular net neutrality law have officially dropped their suit.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Internet Service Providers Drop California Net Neutrality Lawsuit, But Nationwide Rules Still Needed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Broadband providers suing California over its popular net neutrality law have officially dropped their suit.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Public Knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-05T13:52:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-12T22:22:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pk-2018-net-neutrality-one-more-vote-rally-scaled.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shiva Stella\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shiva Stella\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Shiva Stella\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/#\/schema\/person\/f91ba684ee6c75ffda797642f02e2f47\"},\"headline\":\"Internet Service Providers Drop California Net Neutrality Lawsuit, But Nationwide Rules Still Needed\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-05T13:52:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-12T22:22:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/\"},\"wordCount\":195,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pk-2018-net-neutrality-one-more-vote-rally-scaled.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Net Neutrality\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Press Release\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/internet-service-providers-drop-california-net-neutrality-lawsuit-but-nationwide-rules-still-needed\/\",\"name\":\"Internet Service Providers Drop California Net Neutrality Lawsuit, But Nationwide Rules Still Needed - 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