Net Neutrality Lawsuits Against FCC to Stay in Sixth Circuit

The Sixth Circuit said it’ll continue hearing a group of lawsuits challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality regulations, rebuffing an attempt by the agency to move the cases to Washington, D.C.

The litigation “does not present one of those unusual circumstances requiring transfer,” a panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in an order Friday. While the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in June randomly chose the Cincinnati-based appeals court to hear the cases, the FCC requested the move and argued the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has “repeatedly engaged” ...