Today the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Verizon v. FCC, Verizon’s challenge to the FCC’s Open Internet Rules passed in 2010. The rules are designed to prevent Internet service providers from engaging in practices that favor certain content.
While the main question in this case is whether the FCC has the authority regulate the Internet in this way, also at issue is Verizon’s novel First Amendment claim: Verizon contents that it has a First Amendment right to make decisions about how to treat Internet traffic on its network.
Read more about this case and the FCC’s Open Internet Rules here.
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