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Court Stay Signals Loss for FCC on Prison Payphone Reform
March 7, 2016
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed, for the second time, an FCC Order attempting to lower prison payphone phone calling...
FCC’s Prison Payphone Rates Stayed on Appeal, Likely to Be Struck Down
January 13, 2014
Today, the D.C. Circuit stayed the rate-of-return regulations the Federal Communications Commission adopted last summer to lower interstate calling rates for prisoners in state prisons. Thus, until...
FCC Botches Prison Payphone Reform with Price Controls Unlikely to Survive in Court
August 9, 2013
Today, the Federal Communications Commission adopted an order intended to lower prison payphone phone calling rates. Commissioner Ajit Pai dissented over concerns of the legality,...
Competition, Not Price Controls, Is the Key to Prison Payphone Justice
July 10, 2013
Today, the Federal Communications Commission is holding a workshop on prison payphone rates . In December, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking...