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22 results for “Federal Communications Commission, et al.”

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25-567 Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2025-11-12 Granted article-iii communications-act customer-data fcc-penalties judicial-review seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act violates the Seventh Amendment and Article III by authorizing the FCC to order the payment of monetary penalties for fa…
25-406 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-06 Granted administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment Whether the Communications Act provisions that govern the FCC's assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Ame…
25-342 Radio Communications Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Denied article-iii-standing commerce-clause fcc-regulation first-amendment low-power-tv statutory-interpretation Whether the "best reading" of the Low Power Protection Act ("LPPA") mandates nationwide Low Power Protection denial, as if the LPPA had not been enact…
24-354 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-delegation nondelegation-doctrine statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether Congress and the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine in establishing and administering the Universal Service Fund through a private admini…
23-743 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied administrative-law constitutional-law federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine
23-456 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied administrative-law constitutional-law fcc-authority federal-communications-commission non-delegation nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising statutory-interpretation telecommunications-regulation universal-service-fund Whether 47 U.S.C. § 254 violates the nondelegation doctrine
23A88 Consumers' Research, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-28 Presumed Complete fcc-authority nondelegation-doctrine revenue-raising separation-of-powers taxing-power universal-service-fund Whether the Communications Act's delegation of revenue-raising authority to the Federal Communications Commission to collect and administer the Univer…
22-672 Northstar Wireless, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2023-01-20 Denied administrative-law agency-penalty due-process fair-notice fcc small-business small-business-regulation spectrum-auction Whether imposing massive penalties without providing either clear ex ante guidance or a meaningful post hoc opportunity to cure satisfies the fair not…
22-645 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied administrative-law agency-deference appellate-mandates appellate-procedure civil-procedure compliance due-process false-statements federal-agencies judicial-deference judicial-review Whether federal agencies are exempted from the rule requiring strict compliance with appellate mandates
21-661 City of Eugene, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied cable-act cable-franchising federal-right local-fees non-cable-services preemption revenue-based-fee rights-of-way Whether the Sixth Circuit properly held, in conflict with the Oregon Supreme Court, that a fee which is consistent with the Cable Act's only express p…
21-472 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture is 'pure debt collection' under the Debt Collection Improvement Act o…
20-1354 City of Portland, Oregon, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied administrative-interpretation administrative-law brand-x fcc-preemption federal-communications-commission local-government-regulation municipal-rights preemption public-property-access statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telecommunications-regulation Did the court of appeals err in upholding the FCC's interpretation of 'effect of prohibiting' in light of its plain meaning, lack of a limiting standa…
20-410 NTCH, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-29 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law agency-discretion auction auction-integrity cash-payments integrity public-interest regulatory-agency regulatory-benefits rule-making Whether an administrative agency may accept cash payments in exchange for granting regulatory benefits required to be granted solely on relevant publi…
19-1231 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Prometheus Radio Project, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-20 Judgment Issued administrative-law agency-deference arbitrary-and-capricious broadcast-media competition cross-ownership-restrictions fcc fcc-ownership-rules market-competition market-conditions regulatory-review telecommunications-act telecommunications-act-1996 telecommunications-act-of-1996 viewpoint-diversity Whether the court of appeals erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the FCC orders under review, which, among other things, relaxed the agency'…
19A879 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Prometheus Radio Project, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-10 Presumed Complete None
19-344 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-09-17 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process retaliation standing supreme-court-precedent Whether lower court could not comply rulings of Supreme Court
19-134 Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation agency-reconsideration auer-deference chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process exhaustion jurisdiction jurisdictional-review statutory-interpretation takings universal-service-fund Whether Chevron and Auer required the appellate court to accord absolute deference to the Government's conflicting jurisdictional statements
19-8 Jessie D. McDonald v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied civil-procedure due-process judicial-conduct judicial-council judicial-discretion judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct standing Whether the Sixth Circuit Judicial Council have supervisory powers over district court judges?
18A1265 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete administrative-agency equal-employment federal-employment pro-se-litigation retaliation workplace-discrimination Whether federal administrative agencies can engage in workplace discrimination and retaliation against employees without legal recourse
18-717 PMCM TV, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-04 Denied administrative-agency administrative-agency-interpretation administrative-law agency-interpretation cable-television-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-interpretation constitutional-power federal-judiciary federal-statutes statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Should courts continue to follow the Chevron policy of deferring to administrative agency interpretations of federal statutes?
19A793 Qihui Huang v. Ajit Varadaraj Pai, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission, et al. District of Columbia Presumed Complete None
24A754 Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. Consumers' Research, et al. Fifth Circuit Presumed Complete briefing-rules certiorari consolidated-case merits-brief supreme-court word-limit Whether the Supreme Court should grant a word-limit extension for a consolidated merits brief in a multi-party Supreme Court case