U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in cable modem case.
Nation's Cities Weekly, April, 2005 by Leanza, Cheryl
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on March 29 in what may be the final stage of the long-running legal battle over the classification of cable modem services.
NLC had joined the petition to the Supreme Court after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider a decision by one of its three-judge panels that declared cable modem service--an increasingly popular way to access the Internet--an "information service," but not a "cable service" subject to franchise fees as defined by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
However, when the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, it rejected local governments' arguments that cable modem services should be regulated as a cable service. Therefore, the oral argument focused on whether the Federal...
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