Consumers’ Research Asks Supreme Court to Review USF Challenges

WASHINGTON, August 6, 2024 – The Supreme Court declined in June to weigh in on two federal court decisions upholding the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund. After a rehearing at the Fifth Circuit went the other way last month, the conservative nonprofit that challenged the fund is asking the high court to reconsider.

“Given this development, the court should grant rehearing and grant the petitions for writs of certiorari” in the two other cases, challenger Consumers’ Research wrote in a July 25 supplemental brief, “as a new circuit split is a textbook example of” a situation where the Supreme Court usually intervenes.