Supreme Court to review 5th Circuit ruling that upends Universal Service Fund
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in July that the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional and that the fees on phone bills are a "misbegotten tax." The FCC and several non-government groups challenged the ruling, and the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case on Friday.
The case reaches the Supreme Court after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the funding arrangement around the USF ...
The court will seek to determine whether qualifying rural communities should receive federally funded internet access.
The ruling from the Fifth Circuit on USF constitutionality reversed an earlier decision by a panel of Circuit Court judges.
The Supreme Court agreed to resolve a circuit split focused on whether Congress unlawfully delegated the power to tax to the ...
The US Supreme Court isn’t likely to use a pair of newly granted cases involving a multi-billion-dollar fund as a way to ...
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