Report: Entire Broadband Industry Sues California to Stop Net Neutrality Law

From ars Technica:

Four lobby groups representing the broadband industry today sued California to stop the state’s new net neutrality law.
The lawsuit was filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of California by mobile industry lobby CTIA, cable industry lobby NCTA, telco lobby USTelecom, and the American Cable Association, which represents small and mid-size cable companies. Together, these four lobby groups represent all the biggest mobile and home Internet providers in the US and hundreds of smaller ISPs. Comcast, Charter, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US, Sprint, Cox, Frontier, and CenturyLink are among the groups’ members.
“This case presents a classic example of unconstitutional state regulation,” the complaint said. The California net neutrality law “was purposefully intended to countermand and undermine federal law by imposing on [broadband] the very same regulations that the Federal Communications Commission expressly repealed in its 2018 Restoring Internet Freedom Order.”

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From Reuters: Internet Provider Groups Sue Over California Net Neutrality Rules

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Sunday in a statement that the “the California legislature has enacted an extreme and illegal state law attempting to frustrate federal policy.”
This marked the latest clash between the Trump administration and California, which have sparred over environmental, immigration and other hot-button issues.

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See Also: Direct to All Court Filings in Broadband Industry Lawsuit
Federal Lawsuit
See Also: DOJ Sues California Over Net Neutrality Law (via The Hill)

• California Governor Signs Nation’s Strictest Net Neutrality Bill (via The Hill)

• California Enters the Net Neutrality Fray to Fill a Gap in Consumer Protection (via CDT)

• California’s Net Neutrality Law: What’s Happened, What’s Next (via EFF)

• Court Filings (via Court Listener)

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