[governance] US Court Rules against FCC in 'Net Neutrality' Case

Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 22:28:52 EDT 2010


Thanks Keerti. Do you have a copy of the Judgment?

Sala
On 4/7/10, Keerti Nagappa <keerti.nagappa at gmail.com> wrote:
> A federal appeals court (US) has ruled that the Federal
> Communications Commission (FCC)lacks the authority to require
> broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet
> traffic flowing over their networks.
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/technology/07net.html?hp
>
> *Court Rules Against F.C.C. in ‘Net Neutrality’ Case*
> <http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/technology&pos=Frame4A&sn2=d59993d0/2e9a4d4e&sn1=54576ea3/a621c698&camp=foxsearch2010_emailtools_1225557c_nyt5&ad=ch_02_120x60anim_10k&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoxsearchlight%2Ecom%2Fcrazyheart>
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal
> Communications
> Commission<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_communications_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org>lacks
> the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment
> to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
>
> Tuesday’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
> Columbia is a big victory for the Comcast
> Corporation<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/comcast_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org>,
> the nation’s largest cable company. It had challenged the FCC’s authority to
> impose so called “net
> neutrality<http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/n/net_neutrality/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>”
> obligations.
>
> It marks a serious setback for the F.C.C., which needs authority to regulate
> the Internet in order to push ahead with key parts of its national broadband
> plan.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Keerti Nagappa
> LLM Candidate 2010
> University of California,
> Berkeley School of Law
>


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