ShareThe justices on Friday created the prospect of another major ruling on the role of administrative agencies and Congress’s ability to delegate power to those agencies. At the Biden administration’s request, the court agreed to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that invalidated parts of a program by the Federal Communications Commission to improve internet and phone services in underserved areas. The court of ap…

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals. The dispute is the late…

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Supreme Court takes up dispute over FCC fund that subsidizes telecom services in rural areas

The Supreme Court on Nov. 22 agreed to hear the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down an $8-billion-a-year broadband subsidy.
The court’s new decision in FCC v. Consumers’ Research came in the form of an unsigned order. The court did not explain its ruling. No justices dissented.
The court consolidated the case with a related appeal, SHLB Coalition v. Consumers’ Research, referring to the Schoo…

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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Broadband Subsidy

The U.S. Supreme Court consented Friday to adjudicate the legality of a fund overseen by the FCC.

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Supreme Court To Determine Whether Congress Unconstitutionally Granted Powers To The FCC

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SCOTUS agrees to hear a challenge against the FCC's $8B per year program to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries, and rural areas  —  The Supreme Court on Friday stepped into a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone …

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SCOTUS agrees to hear a challenge against the FCC's $8B per year program to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries, and rural areas

It will hear an appeal of a 5th Circuit ruling that the FCC’s management of the Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional

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Supreme Court to Consider Legality of FCC’s Universal Service Fund

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday stepped into a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas, in a new test of federal regulatory power. The justices will review an appellate ruling that struck down as unconstitutional […] The post Supreme Court steps into fight over FCC’s $8 billion subsidies for internet and phone services appea…

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