Chamber, TechFreedom Urge 9th Circuit to Block Calif. Net Neutrality Law
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should grant a preliminary injunction against California's 2018 net neutrality law, said an amicus brief (in Pacer, case No. 21-15430) filed Tuesday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, California Chamber of Commerce, Small…
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Business & Entrepreneurship Council, Telecommunications Industry Association and CALinnovates after a federal judge denied an injunction in February (see 2102230072). The law "raises more questions than it answers," the groups said, because there's "no principled way to limit regulation of the internet to a single state." Net neutrality rules should be set at the federal level, said TechFreedom in its amicus brief supporting an injunction. Leaving this issue up to the states "will leave everyone stuck, indefinitely, with inconsistent and contradictory state rules," it argued. “The problem is not simply that this state law conflicts with the current federal standards,” said Corbin Barthold, TechFreedom director-appellate litigation, in a statement. “Even if the federal government and a group of states all had identical net neutrality laws, the state laws would remain preempted by federal law."