Week of June 24–29, 2024Telecom Intelligence: Week of June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court ended its term by detonating four decades of administrative law: Loper Bright overturned Chevron deference, stripping federal agencies — very much including the FCC — of the benefit of the doubt when statutes are ambiguous. It is the single most consequential development for telecom regulation in a generation, landing three weeks before the FCC's net neutrality rules were due to take effect. The same week, Brussels filed its first-ever Digital Markets Act charges against Apple over App Store steering, and the Court separately let the government keep talking to social platforms about misinformation, tossing Murthy v. Missouri on standing.