From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   More states could act after ISPs lose latest California net neutrality   
   challenge   
      
   The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dealt ISP groups a blow, as a   
   three-judge panel upheld the state of California's right to implement   
   its own net neutrality rules. Analysts at New Street Research tipped   
   the decision to prompt more state action on the issue.   
      
   At the heart of the case is a 2018 law that the state passed to codify   
   net neutrality regulations after the Federal Communications Commission   
   (FCC) repealed its own open internet rules in late 2017. The   
   California law was promptly challenged in separate lawsuits by   
   industry groups and the Department of Justice. The latter withdrew its   
   case in February 2021. A district court judge ruled against the ISP   
   groups that same month, prompting them to appeal to the Ninth Circuit.   
      
   The industry groups had argued that California's law was superseded by   
   federal regulations from the FCC. But the Ninth Circuit judges   
   determined that by classifying broadband internet services as   
   information services in the repeal order, the FCC forfeited "the   
   authority to regulate in the same manner that it did when these   
   services were classified as telecommunications services." Thus, the   
   FCC "could not preempt state action, like SB-822, that protects net   
   neutrality."   
      
   https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/more-states-could-act-afte   
   -isps-lose-latest-california-net-neutrality-challenge   
      
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