Brian Schatz of Hawaii led a letter Thursday with 20 other Senate Democrats urging the departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development to “share data” with the FCC on programs to improve broadband connectivity and “collaborate with each other to better promote" Lifeline. HUD and USDA should “use their resources to help promote the Lifeline program through existing outreach to public housing agencies and schools,” the lawmakers wrote HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “HUD, USDA and the FCC should also collaborate on what additional information they could share with each other to make enrollment in the Lifeline program easier.” Others signing included Communications Subcommittee Chairman Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., earlier this week wrote Rosenworcel to again raise concerns about FCC plans to improve broadband coverage map accuracy. He cited a Competitive Carriers Association study that found “pervasive errors” on Rural Digital Opportunity Fund data (see 2105060072).
A federal judge peppered New York with questions on how the state’s law requiring $15 monthly low-income plans squares with the FCC 2018 net neutrality order. Judge Denis Hurley asked no questions of the ISPs challenging the policy at a teleconferenced oral argument Thursday in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York. Meanwhile, large telcos are seeking DSL exemptions from the law at the Public Service Commission.
A federal judge peppered New York with questions on how the state’s law requiring $15 monthly low-income plans squares with the FCC 2018 net neutrality order. Judge Denis Hurley asked no questions of the ISPs challenging the policy at a teleconferenced oral argument Thursday in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York. Meanwhile, large telcos are seeking DSL exemptions from the law at the Public Service Commission.
Thai pipe exporter Blue Pipe Steel Center Co. filed an unopposed motion to stay proceedings on June 1 in its Enforce and Protect Act challenge until a decision is received from a related case involving a scope ruling on the underlying antidumping duty order in the Court of International Trade. Blue Pipe is hoping to reverse the affirmative determination that its dual stenciled pipe evaded antidumping duties on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand. Since a related lawsuit from Saha Thai is challenging a scope ruling that found that dual-stenciled pipe was covered by the AD duty order, Blue Pipe's case should wait until the scope matter is settled, the company said.
Viasat never raised environmental concerns in the past, including SpaceX's original authorization to operate its satellites, but its “newfound environmentalism has grown in correlation with its fear of competition,” SpaceX told the FCC International Bureau Friday in opposition to Viasat's requested stay of SpaceX's license modification granted in April (see 2105240005). It said FCC's “methodical, issue-by-issue treatment of Viasat’s unprecedented, overbroad, and thinly-supported” National Environmental Policy Act arguments isn't likely to be overturned in court. It said Viasat hasn't shown how it would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay. Viasat didn't comment Tuesday.
ISPs’ lawsuit against New York’s broadband affordability law raises similar preemption issues to cases industry lost in other venues, but law experts disagreed in interviews which side would win. Plaintiffs at U.S. District Court for Eastern New York (case 21-cv-2389) make the same arguments that failed in Maine ISP privacy and California net neutrality cases, which are “structurally almost identical” to the New York case, argued Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick. Former FCC General Counsel Thomas Johnson countered that 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals case law gives ISP plaintiffs an “additional arrow in their quiver.”
Congress should enact federal privacy legislation that would give internet users the right to access and delete personal information, FTC acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter wrote in a recent letter to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. An aide for Klobuchar, who supports access and deletion rights, said Tuesday the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee chair will continue pushing for such legislation.
ISPs’ lawsuit against New York’s broadband affordability law raises similar preemption issues to cases industry lost in other venues, but law experts disagreed in interviews which side would win. Plaintiffs at U.S. District Court for Eastern New York (case 21-cv-2389) make the same arguments that failed in Maine ISP privacy and California net neutrality cases, which are “structurally almost identical” to the New York case, argued Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick. Former FCC General Counsel Thomas Johnson countered that 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals case law gives ISP plaintiffs an “additional arrow in their quiver.”
Congress should enact federal privacy legislation that would give internet users the right to access and delete personal information, FTC acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter wrote in a recent letter to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. An aide for Klobuchar, who supports access and deletion rights, said Tuesday the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee chair will continue pushing for such legislation.
Congress should enact federal privacy legislation that would give internet users the right to access and delete personal information, FTC acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter wrote in a recent letter to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. An aide for Klobuchar, who supports access and deletion rights, said Tuesday the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee chair will continue pushing for such legislation.