Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules

Re:Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s ant... by saalweachter on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @12:48PM (#7058464)

Fair point; just because you like a politician doesn't mean you'll like their judge or all of their decisions. Heck, maybe if the panel for this case had been an Obama, Clinton, and Reagan appointee, the Obama and Reagan appointees would have sided against the Clinton.

The DC Court handles all of these big, Federal cases that make the top of HN. A President's impact on the DC Court is almost as important as their impact on the Supreme Court.

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Re:Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s ant... by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @12:59PM (#7058546)

> The DC Court handles all of these big, Federal cases that make the top of HN.

No, it doesn't. The Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit handles appeals of federal regulatory agency decisions, but -- while this FCC decision is an example of those -- you don't see a lot of them make the top of HN. Most of the "big, federal" cases that make the top of HN are either:

1) criminal cases, which go to trial in the District Court in which the crime occurred, and for appeal to the Circuit Court in which that District Court is located (which might happen to be the DC Circuit if the trial was originally in the District Court for the District of Columbia, but usually that's not the case); or

2) coyright cases, which again go through any of the District Courts for trial, and the corresponding Circuit Court for appeals; or

3) patent cases, which go to trial in the District Court in which the crime occurred, and for appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal (not DC) Circuit.

While the DC Circuit is very important, its not that commonly involved in cases that make the front page of HN.

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