Tag Archives: U.S. Court of Appeals

FCC Net Neutrality Repeal Published in Federal Register, Triggering Deadlines for Challengers

On Thursday, February 22, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) published the Restoring Internet Freedom Order (the Order) in the Federal Register. As we previously discussed, the Order effectively reverses the Commission’s 2015 Open Internet Order, reclassifying broadband Internet access service as a lightly regulated Title I “information service” and eliminating the 2015 … Continue Reading

U.S. Court of Appeals Applies Telephone Solicitation Restrictions to Text Messaging

By Kelley Drye on June 23, 2009 Posted in New Media

On Friday, June 19, 2009, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision involving a mobile marketing campaign. A key issue in the case is whether text messages are subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the "TCPA"), a law that was drafted before the advent of text messaging. Although the Ninth … Continue Reading