FCC Opposes Supreme Court Review of Payphones Case
The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit correctly said the FCC didn't act “arbitrarily or capriciously" in permitting state regulators to decide not to grant payphone service providers refunds from AT&T and Verizon (see 1406160029), wrote agency attorneys and…
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U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. They said the Supreme Court should deny a Nov. 10 writ of certiorari filed by the Illinois Public Telecommunications Association. “The court of appeals correctly upheld the FCC’s determination that state authorities were better positioned than the federal agency to decide the applicability of the filed-rate doctrine in individual refund disputes,” said the Feb. 11 brief released Wednesday.