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North Carolina sues FCC over municipal broadband

The lawsuittechnically, a “petition for review”the state of North Carolina filed in federal court last week is, for a case rooted in weighty constitutional matters, fairly short, just two-and-a-half pages. The argument is straightforward enough: The Federal Communications Commission overstepped its constitutional bounds earlier this year when it preempted a state law that prevented municipalities […]