| 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 |