ISPs, FCC Outline Oral Argument Proposal to Court

Interested parties, including Internet service providers and the Federal Communications Commission, filed proposals with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on the logistics of a hearing on the FCC’s Open Internet rules.

They asked for 30 minutes per side for the first part of the argument, 20 per for the second, and 10 per for the third. The first session would deal with the legality of reclassifying broadband as a telecommunications service and related issues. The second portion would focus on ISP claims about the lawfulness of applying Title II to mobile broadband. The third session would go to challenges that the rules violate the First Amendment, and could include addressing their challenge to reliance on Sec. 706 authority.