DOJ Backs FCC Move Not to Defend Intrastate Rate Caps on Inmate Calling Services
DOJ said it would defer to the FCC's decision not to defend intrastate rate caps in a 2015 inmate calling services order set for oral argument Monday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The department also…
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deferred to the commission decision not to defend any arguments that the regulator lawfully considered industrywide averages in setting the order's rate caps, which included interstate rate caps. "The United States, however, continues to join the Commission's defense of 'the significant remaining portions of the Order,'" said a DOJ letter (in Pacer) Thursday in Global Tel*Link v. FCC, No. 15-1461, citing language from an FCC letter Tuesday (see 1701310061).