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Supreme Court seems inclined to preserve FCC fund

FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C.

The headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C.

 Andrew Kelly/reuters

WASHINGTON � The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Wednesday to the Federal Communications Commission's defense of the mechanism it uses to fund a multi-billion dollar effort to expand phone and broadband internet access to low-income and rural Americans and other beneficiaries.

The justices heard arguments in an appeal by the agency and a coalition of telecommunications firms and interest groups of a lower court's ruling that the FCC funding operation effectively levied a "misbegotten tax" on consumers in violation of the U.S. Constitution's vesting of legislative authority in Congress.



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