A U.S. appeals court on Aug. 1 temporarily blocked the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reinstatement of Obama-era net neutrality regulations that would reclassify broadband internet.
The court found that several broadband companies will likely succeed in a legal challenge against reinstating the FCC rules that would classify broadband internet providers as common carriers and subject them to heightened regulatory requirements.
In its ruling,  the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the regulations implicates a “major question,” and the FCC has “failed to satisfy the high bar for imposing such regulations.”
“Net neutrality is likely a major question requiring clear congressional authorization,” the court wrote in its ruling….