Verizon Jumped the Gun on Net Neutrality Challenge, Court Says
Verizon was really eager to take the Federal Communications Commission to court over its new net neutrality rules. Maybe a little too eager. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed Verizon’s appeal on Monday, because the rules hadn’t yet been printed in the Federal Register when Verizon filed.
“Verizon tried to ‘game the system’ by attempting to challenge the FCC’s open Internet decision prior to its official release,” said Andrew Schwartzman, policy director of the Media Access Project, which supports the FCC’s new rules.
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