{"id":37730,"date":"2025-02-18T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/?p=37730"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:34:52","slug":"public-knowledge-joins-en-banc-petition-with-sixth-circuit-to-defend-broadband-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/public-knowledge-joins-en-banc-petition-with-sixth-circuit-to-defend-broadband-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Knowledge Joins En Banc Petition with Sixth Circuit To Defend Broadband Users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, alongside its fellow intervenors, Public Knowledge <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/public-knowledge-sixth-circuit-en-banc-petition\/\">submitted an en banc petition<\/a> in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The petition asks the full court to reconsider a recent panel decision that misinterprets the Communications Act\u2019s clear statutory language by classifying broadband as an &#8220;information service&#8221; rather than a &#8220;telecommunications service,&#8221; conflicting with precedent from other circuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following can be attributed to John Bergmayer, Legal Director at Public Knowledge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen it reversed the <em>Chevron<\/em> precedent that gave broad discretion to regulatory agencies, the Supreme Court instructed lower courts to interpret the law according to its plain meaning, applying ordinary tools of statutory construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of doing this, the Sixth Circuit panel shoehorned its policy preferences into the law, in a slapdash and inconsistent opinion that, if left unchallenged, will eliminate the ability of future regulators to promote universal, affordable competitive broadband access, and could even threaten the openness of the telephone network itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPublic Knowledge and its allies are part of this case as intervenors, which gives us the right to appeal even if the new Federal Communications Commission leadership is comfortable with an outcome that leaves broadband users with no consumer protections at the federal level. One silver lining of the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent upheaval of decades of administrative law, if it can be called that, is that courts do not need to accord Chairman Brendan Carr&#8217;s FCC any meaningful deference. We hope the Sixth Circuit reverses the panel&#8217;s erroneous decision.\u201d<br><br>You may view the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/public-knowledge-sixth-circuit-en-banc-petition\/\">filing<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, alongside its fellow intervenors, Public Knowledge submitted an en banc petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. 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