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# Public Interest Groups Quiet on Net Neutrality Ahead of Aug. 8 Supreme Court Deadline
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/public-interest-groups-quiet-on-net-neutrality-ahead-of-aug-8-supreme-court-deadline/
- Published: 2025-08-06T21:47:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T05:48:09.000Z
- Description: A decades-old legal battle could be over.
- Author: Patricia Blume
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Jessica Rosenworcel, Brett Kavanaugh, Free Press, New America, Benton Institute for Broadband & Societ, FCC, Communications Act of 1996, #with-siderail

WASHINGTON, August 6, 2025 – Facing a Friday deadline, public interest groups have yet to disclose whether they will take the Net Neutrality fight to the Supreme Court or [let the current legal battle die.](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/fox-o-o-stations-demand-regulatory-parity-from-carrs-fcc/)

In April 2024, the FCC under Democratic Chair **Jessica Rosenworcel** adopted the Net Neutrality rules, which reclassified broadband internet service as a Title II telecommunications service under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and gave the FCC regulatory authority over them. 

In January 2025, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati struck down the rules, holding that the FCC lacked the statutory authority to impose the regulations – especially in light of the Supreme Court’s June 2024 decision in *Loper Bright*, which ended judicial deference to FCC interpretation of ambiguous laws.

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In late May, Supreme Court Justice **Brett M. Kavanaugh**, who oversees the Sixth Circuit, [granted](https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=%2Fdocket%2Fdocketfiles%2Fhtml%2Fpublic%2F24a1145.html&ref=broadbandbreakfast.com) Free Press, New America's Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, and the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society [an extension until Aug. 8, 2025](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/scotus-grants-extension-for-net-neutrality-petitioners/), to file an appeal. 

New America confirmed it planned to issue a joint release Friday.