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John Paul Stevens, Who Wrote 1978 Opinion Upholding FCC Indecency Regulation Powers, Retiring

List Of  Appeals Denied By Court Does Not Include Cablevision Vs. FCC

Merger Critics Say Ruling Won't Alleviate Other Harms

A Federal Communications Commission spokeswoman said that the agency still has the power to promote an open Internet, and will use that power, but also recognized that a D.C. court decision striking down a previous commission's order in the BitTorrent case "invalidated the prior Commission's approach to preserving an open Internet."

CBS wants the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to tackle the FCC's indecency regime head on, and, likening the commission to an obsessed seas captain, asked it, in effect, not to give Ahab another harpoon.