Communications and Broadband Law

On March 24, 2023, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held that § 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the “Act”) did not violate the nondelegation doctrine or the private nondelegation doctrine, denying the Petitioners challenge to Congress’s delegation of administering the Universal Service Fund (“USF”) to the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) and the FCC’s reliance on a private…

The District Court for the Southern District of Indiana published an order on November 18, 2020 remanding the Class Action lawsuit against Netflix, Disney, Hulu, DirectTV and Dish to Marion County Superior Court. The city of Fishers, Indianapolis, Evansville and Valparaiso filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all units entitled to receive franchise fees to compel the streaming…