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Broadband associations file reply in support of US Supreme Court review of New York's Affordable Broadband Act

( October 30, 2024, 15:54 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Broadband associations filed a reply in support of their petition that the US Supreme Court review a decision that allowed the New York Affordable Broadband Act to take effect, saying New York draws the wrong conclusion from the connection between the case and the Sixth Circuit’s review of the Federal Communications Commission’s recent attempt to turn broadband into a public-utility offering. “According to the Second Circuit, an FCC loss at the Sixth Circuit declares open season for all 50 States to regulate broadband rates because Congress did not explicitly authorize the FCC to do so. Yet the same interpretive principles that bar the FCC from finding implicit statutory authority to treat broadband as a public-utility service demand rejecting the Second Circuit’s reading of that act to invite, silently, each of the 50 States to claim such authority,” they argued....

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