Net Neutrality Advocates Seeking Rule Revival Get Day in Court

Regulators overstepped when they gutted Obama-era rules that barred broadband providers from interfering with web traffic, advocates seeking to restore the old rules told an appeals court that gave few clues how it may rule in a closely watched case on so-called “net neutrality.”

Pantelis Michalopoulos, an attorney for groups trying to restore Obama-era net neutrality regulations, told a three-judge panel at the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the decision by the current Federal Communications Commission to rescind those rules “does not restore anything except an imaginary past.“

After the election of President Donald Trump, ...