Supreme Court Gives Parties Until Sept. 14 for Responses in 2015 Net Neutrality Order Case
Parties now have until Sept. 14 to respond to requests for Supreme Court review of the prior FCC's 2015 Title II Communications Act net neutrality order. The court Thursday granted for all respondents a request of intervenor-defendants for a 30-day…
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extension to file their briefs in opposition to cert petitions in Daniel Berninger et al. v. FCC, No. 17-498 (Aug. 9 grant notice) and consolidated cases. Kevin Russell, counsel for Free Press, New America's Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge, on behalf of his clients and other private respondents sought the additional time to address issues raised by the solicitor general (DOJ and FCC) Aug. 2 in asking justices to vacate and remand the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's affirmation of the 2015 order (see 1808030041). Russell noted most of the intervenors are also petitioners or intervenors challenging the current FCC's order undoing Title II net neutrality regulation, and have related briefs due Aug. 20 to the D.C. Circuit.