Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers' Research
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 27, 2025 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 27, 2025
- Term
- October Term 2024
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Kagan
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 606 U. S. Part 2 Pages 656–747 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT June 27, 2025 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. Syllabus FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al. v. CONSUMERS' RESEARCH et al. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fth circuit No. 24–354. Argued March 26, 2025—Decided June 27, 2025* The Communications Act of 1934 established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) and instructed it to make available to “all the people of the United States” reliable communications services “at reasonable charges.” 47 U. S.C. §151. That objective is today known as “universal service.” The universal-service project arose from the concern that pure market mechanisms would leave some population segments—such as the poor and those in rural areas—without access to needed communications services. Under the 1934 Act, the FCC pur- sued universal service primarily through implicit subsidies, using its rate-regulation authority to lower costs for some consumers at the ex- pense of others. In 1996,…
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