The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC does not have the "statutory authority" to implement net neutrality rules. Since the rules were established in 2015, the FCC argued that classifying ISPs as "telecommunication services" gives it broad authority to regulate them.

Donald Trump's Republican-led FCC overturned the rules in 2017, but with President Joe Biden's encouragement, a Democrat-majority FCC voted to reinstate net neutrality last April. The Supreme Court's ruling last June that federal agencies no longer get deference in interpreting regulations "means we can end the FCC's vacillations,

The FCC under President Barack Obama passed the most robust set of net neutrality rules, establishing their legal footing by reclassifying internet serves as a Title II telecommunications service, or a common carrier. The latter regulatory maneuver drew widespread opposition among major telecom companies like Comcast and AT&T.