Posted on 12/31/2010 11:51:17 AM PST by dila813
Both Republican commissioners have predicted that the new rules will ultimately be struck down, along the same lines as the Comcast case.
While many critics of expanded FCC regulation over broadband providers have at least feigned support of the action (while notably reserving final judgment until they can thoroughly review the 194-page report and order), Verizon took a more hostile view. Tom Tauke, a former congressman and the telecommunications giant's top lobbyist, said the company is "deeply concerned" by the order, calling it an "assertion of authority without solid statutory underpinnings."
While no industry group has yet initiated a legal challenge, analysts say it's only a matter of time. Rebecca Arbogast of Stifel Nicolaus, a former bureau chief at the FCC, said that while congressional Republicans will have a hard time winning enough Democrats over to their side to overturn the rules and skirt a presidential veto, "litigation prospects will depend on the strength of the FCC's order, the parties that are challenging it, and the court that hears the case."
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Lots of possible action identified in this article. I hope to see each and everyone of them to destroy these rules.
On 2 Days before Christmas on a party line vote these Rules and Orders were agreed to. The day after Christmas the Rules and Orders were posted on the Internet.
Since then we have learned that the entire process of approving this was done just like Obamacare in secrecy and by hiding relevant information for the Republican Commissioners on the FCC Board.
The FCC will join up with the UN. Looks like a done deal already.
Some days, I wish our “government” would simply drop dead. This is one of those days.
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