Tech Companies, Nonprofits Appeal Net Neutrality Ruling (1)

Tech companies, public interest groups, and other entities that sued to block the FCC’s scrapping of net neutrality rules have asked the D.C. Circuit to reconsider its decision upholding the rollback of the Obama-era requirements.

The petitioners Dec. 13 asked for a rehearing by either the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit or a court panel. Mozilla Corp. and Vimeo Inc., the Computer & Communications Industry Association, Public Knowledge, and the National Hispanic Media Coalition were among the petitioners.

A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel Oct. 1 upheld most of the Federal Communications Commission’s 2017 order, ...