A federal appeals court voted unanimously on Friday to uphold California’s reports The Verge. One year after the Federal Communications Commission that applied nationwide, the state passed its own set of laws. Those rules barred internet service providers from blocking, as well as throttling select websites and services. However, California could those laws due to two separate legal challenges.
The first came from the Department of Justice. Under former President Donald Trump, the agency sued the state, arguing its laws were pre-empted by the FCC’s repeal of the Obama-era . In February 2021, the Justice Department . Later that same month, a federal judge in a separate lawsuit involving multiple telecom trade groups. This week’s ruling upholds that decision.
In its ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said the lower court “correctly denied” the preliminary…
