{"id":37888,"date":"2025-04-25T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/?post_type=policy&#038;p=37888"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:18:43","slug":"group-amicus-brief-on-fcc-independence","status":"publish","type":"policy","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/policy\/group-amicus-brief-on-fcc-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Amicus Brief on FCC Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Public Knowledge joined The Benton Institute for Broadband &amp; Society, Center for Digital Democracy, and Free Press in filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reject attacks on the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IPCS-brief.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of IPCS brief.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ab0bc328-f63e-4eb9-872c-7580d2890744\" href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IPCS-brief.pdf\">IPCS brief<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IPCS-brief.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ab0bc328-f63e-4eb9-872c-7580d2890744\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":36650,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[17],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-37888","policy","type-policy","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulatory-and-legal","tag-platform-regulation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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