8th Circuit Selected to Hear Challenges to BDS Deregulation Order
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was picked to hear challenges to the FCC's recent business data service order, a commission spokesman told us Friday. The FCC filed a notice with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation of Multicircuit…
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Petitions for Review that challenges had been filed in three different courts: the 8th Circuit, 5th Circuit and D.C. Circuit (see 1706150074). The panel randomly selected the 8th Circuit to review the consolidated BDS litigation, said an order Friday. A D.C. Circuit order (in Pacer) transferred its BDS cases to the 8th Circuit. Commissioners voted 2-1 along party lines April 20 to approve the BDS order, which substantially expands price deregulation of incumbent telcos. Challenges to the order were filed by the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee, Sprint and Windstream jointly, CenturyLink and Citizens Telecommunications of Minnesota.