The California Public Utilities Commission, in opposing the emergency motion from T-Mobile and its subsidiaries to freeze the CPUC order requiring a $1.11 monthly flat USF fee per line as of April 1, contradicts the district court’s “unequivocal finding” that T-Mobile “established irreparable harm,” said the carrier’s reply brief Monday (docket 23-15490) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a stay.

Standard General received only 15 to 20 minutes' notice from the FCC that the agency was about to issue a hearing designation order, and Standard doesn’t plan to go away if the Tegna deal falls apart, Managing Partner Soohyung Kim said in an interview Monday. “I don’t think a regulator should dislike the industry it regulates,” he told former FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly during an onstage Q&A at the NAB Show Tuesday.

PHILADELPHIA -- Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) challenged state enforcers Tuesday to collaboratively address privacy and social media issues, speaking at a National Association of Attorneys General meeting. North Carolina AG Josh Stein (D) asked an algorithms panel later for suggestions on what states can do amid a rise of AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

The risk factors section in Arqit’s 2021 registration statement with the SEC failed to discuss the risks of adoption of the company’s quantum encryption-as-a-service technology, alleges a Friday fraud class action (docket 1:23-cv-02806) in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Axon decision calls into question the constitutionality of the FTC’s quasi-judicial authority and will have ramifications for Chair Lina Khan’s “aggressive” rulemaking agenda, legal experts said Monday.

T-Mobile shows no dire situation warranting injunction of California’s shift to connections-based contribution for state USF, the California Public Utilities Commission said Friday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The agency urged the court to deny the carrier and its subsidiaries’ emergency request to freeze the CPUC order requiring a $1.11 monthly flat fee as of April 1. “No lives hang in the balance,” wrote the CPUC. “No one is threatened with deportation.”

Two dozen iPhone users petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its long-standing FCC preemption doctrine on cellphone RF safety “without offering any reason that would justify such a request,” said Apple’s opposition brief Friday (22-698). SCOTUS “previously declined to take up this exact issue involving the preemptive effect of the FCC’s RF emissions regulations, and nothing has changed in the interim to suggest review is warranted now,” it said.

District courts have jurisdiction to hear lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of administrative law judge proceedings at the FTC and other federal agencies, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Friday in dockets 21-86 (see 2211070049) and 21-1239 (see 2211070062).

The 29 Texas cities suing Disney, Hulu and Netflix for franchise fees “cannot and do not explain away” similar franchise fee lawsuits that were rejected in other jurisdictions, said Netflix’s reply in support of its motion to dismiss Wednesday in the 14th District Court of Dallas County (docket DC-22-09128).

The FCC misrepresented the Standard/Tegna deal as complex and refused to engage with the broadcasters, and Friday’s Supreme Court opinion on agency adjudications underscores that the hearing process is unconstitutional, said Standard General, Cox Media Group and Tegna in their final response filing supporting their petition for mandamus at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (see 2304110072).