A consumer advocacy group and others have agreed to drop their challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s scheme for subsidizing phone and broadband access in rural areas.
Lawyers for both sides alerted the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday that they had both agreed to voluntarily dismiss the case, less than six months after the court heard oral arguments.
The dismissal stipulation doesn’t offer any explanation for the decision, but the agreement to dismiss it comes one week after the Supreme Court declined to take up similar challenges to the FCC subsidy program from other ...
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