6th Circuit Formally Transmits Net Neutrality Decision to FCC
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mandate Thursday closing the fight over the court’s decision against the FCC’s 2024 net neutrality order and transmitting its decision to the FCC. The mandate wasn’t a surprise. The 6th Circuit recently rejected a public interest group petition for en banc review of the decision (see 2503110050).
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“The ‘mandate’ is when the case is over at the court, and it formally transmits its decision to the agency or a lower court,” emailed Public Knowledge Legal Director John Bergmayer -- in this case, to the FCC. A three-judge panel issued a narrow decision in January rejecting the order in a win for ISPs and other opponents of the order (see 2501020047), which had been approved 3-2 by FCC Democrats during the Biden administration.