Consumer Groups, Others File Briefs Backing FCC Muni-Broadband Pre-emption
A federal court should uphold the FCC order pre-empting two state laws that restrict municipal broadband growth, said an amicus brief filed Thursday by the Benton Foundation, Common Cause, New America's Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge and the Schools, Health…
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and Libraries Broadband Coalition. The North Carolina and Tennessee laws "placed significant burdens on municipalities attempting to provide their own broadband networks," the consumer-oriented groups told the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is reviewing state challenges to the order in two dockets (Tennessee v. FCC, No. 15-3291, and North Carolina v. FCC, docket No. 15-3555). Also filing amicus briefs in support of the FCC were: the Coalition for Local Internet Choice; the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors; Next Century Cities and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance; and the North Carolina League of Municipalities.