The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in July that the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund ...

The case reaches the Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the funding arrangement around the USF ...

Arguments in this dispute will likely take place early next year, with a decision expected by the end of June.

The court will seek to determine whether qualifying rural communities should receive federally funded internet access.

The conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the program is funded by a "misbegotten tax" on ...

For decades, there has been broad, bipartisan support for the Universal Service Fund and the FCC programs that help communications reach ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the funding mechanism for the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will review the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of a congressionally authorized fund operated by the Federal ...

Congress in a federal law called the Telecommunications Act of 1996 authorized the FCC to operate the Universal Service Fund to promote broad access to services such as phone and broadband internet.