Other States Support California on Net Neutrality Law
Other states support California in response to ISP associations appealing a ruling denying their preliminary injunction against the net neutrality law, in a case before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2103100029). “Amici have a strong interest in…
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defending the States’ sovereign right to exercise their police powers against unwarranted assertions of federal preemption,” said Wednesday's posting (all URLs in Pacer). “A critical aspect of the States’ sovereignty is the ability to pass laws aimed at ‘guard[ing] the lives and health of their citizens.’” New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin, plus Washington, D.C., were on the brief in docket 21-15430. California localities agreed with the states. “Investments in broadband-based communications systems to exchange information with the public underscore their reliance on a neutral Internet,” they said. ISPs “falsely” claim that investment declined when the 2015 federal rules were in place, said Access Now, Mozilla, Public Knowledge, New America's Open Technology Institute and Free Press. Other neutrality supporters, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Humboldt, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and Reddit, also filed in support of the state: “We have seen firsthand that stripping away legal protection for net neutrality would inflict serious harm on Californians and on California nonprofits, educators and businesses.”