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

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

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

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

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) ...

which found the Federal Communications Commission-run Universal Service Fund (USF) to be unconstitutional. The Solicitor General asked the Court to determine that the program is lawful.

The justices agreed to take up the government’s appeal of a decision invalidating the Universal Service Fund (USF), a federal subsidy aimed at providing affordable telecommunications services to ...

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.