NewsHere’s the domestic legal news we covered this week:
Loraine County joins a growing list of municipalities filing suit against drug companies for the opioid crisis, including the city of Lorain, Ohio’s Lake County and Cuyahoga County, as well as Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine [JURIST report] earlier this year.
Calling it an act to “restore internet freedom” and increase “Transparency to Protect Consumers, Spur Investment, Innovation, and Competition,” the FCC stated that it undertook detailed legal and economic analysis and extensively examined comments from consumers and stakeholders before deciding to repeal what it calls “the [Obama-era] FCC’s 2015 heavy-handed utility-style regulation of broadband Internet access service.”
Stating that the net neutrality rules “imposed substantial costs on the entire Internet ecosystem” the FCC proclaimed that it:
is returning to the traditional light-touch framework that was in place until 2015.
This is the latest development in a case that has been in litigation since 2012 when the Constitution, Green and Libertarian [party websites] parties of Pennsylvania, collectively referred to as the “Aspiring Parties,” filed a § 1983 [text, PDF] suit against the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Commissioner [official profiles] of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Commissions, Elections, and Legislation (the state), claiming that certain of Pennsylvania’s election laws violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment [GPO backgrounders, PDFs] rights.
US District Judge Marsha Pechman partially granted the preliminary injunction, finding the ban likely violates the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to equal protection, substantive due process, and First Amendment protections.
