FCC
6 briefs
The FCC vs. The View, and the Broadcast License as a Weapon
The Trump FCC is using a 1934 equal-time rule to investigate a talk show, threatening licenses and rewriting 20-year-old precedents. ABC is fighting back. The stakes are whether the government can police broadcast content through regulatory intimidation.
The FCC Opens a License Review Over a Late-Night Joke
The White House wants Jimmy Kimmel fired. The FCC is helping. Neither will succeed, and that may be the point.
The Regulator as Weapon
The FCC is threatening to challenge ABC's broadcast licenses because a comedian made a joke the president disliked. The licensing process has never been used this way. That is the point.
AT&T and Verizon Want a Jury Trial for Their FCC Fines. The Supreme Court Seems Skeptical But Interested.
FCC v. AT&T asks whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial before a federal agency can impose a nine-figure fine. The answer would reshape how every regulatory agency in the US enforces penalties.
The FTC Is Doing to NewsGuard What Rhode Island Did to Comic Books in 1956.
Courts have repeatedly ruled that government pressure on private intermediaries to suppress speech is unconstitutional. The Trump administration is doing it anyway, from a different direction.
The Case That Could Let Big Telecom Ignore Privacy Fines
The Supreme Court hears argument April 21 on whether AT&T and Verizon had a right to a jury trial before the FCC fined them $104 million for selling customer location data. The answer could gut every federal agency's ability to enforce its rules.