Lottery on Court Venue for Net Neutrality Repeal Litigation Expected Soon
The FCC is expected to trigger a court lottery soon to pick the venue for challenges to its "internet freedom" order rolling back net neutrality regulation. "The certification and selection should happen quite quickly (unless the FCC decides to sit…
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on it for some reason)," emailed Matt Wood, policy director at Free Press, one of the petitioners, Tuesday. "I would normally expect an answer this week," said a former FCC attorney, who saw no reason for a significant delay. Parties are supposed to notify the FCC about petitions. An FCC spokesman didn't comment but noted information about the judicial lottery process. By our count, at least 15 petitions for review were filed in at least two U.S. circuit courts of appeal by Monday, the lottery deadline in the net neutrality repeal case (petitions can still be filed through April 23). Thirteen were filed in the D.C. Circuit: by Mozilla, Vimeo, Public Knowledge, New America's Open Technology Institute, 23 state attorneys general, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, NTCH, Benton Foundation, Free Press, Etsy, Coalition for Internet Openness (Etsy and five other companies), Center for Democracy & Technology and Ad Hoc Telecom Users Committee. Two were filed in the 9th Circuit: by the California Public Utilities Commission and Santa Clara County.