{"id":74439,"date":"2026-06-04T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/us-supreme-court-backs-fcc-in-clash-with-wireless-carriers-over-fines\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:57:26","slug":"us-supreme-court-backs-fcc-in-clash-with-wireless-carriers-over-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/us-supreme-court-backs-fcc-in-clash-with-wireless-carriers-over-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"US supreme court backs FCC in clash with wireless carriers over fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justices uphold FCC authority to impose in-house penalties, rejecting AT&amp;T and Verizon jury trial claims<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">supreme court<\/a> backed the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s system for levying fines, ruling on Thursday against wireless carriers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/at-t\">AT&amp;T<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/verizon-communications\">Verizon<\/a> in their challenge to the agency and handing a win to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was 8-1. At issue in the legal dispute was whether the agency\u2019s in-house proceedings for imposing the penalties deprived the companies of their right to a jury trial under the US constitution. Trump\u2019s administration defended the FCC\u2019s system for assessing financial penalties, known as forfeiture orders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jun\/04\/verizon-att-supreme-court-decision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices uphold FCC authority to impose in-house penalties, rejecting AT&amp;T and Verizon jury trial claims Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US supreme court backed the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s system for levying fines, ruling on Thursday against wireless carriers AT&amp;T and Verizon in their challenge to the agency and handing a &#8230; <a title=\"US supreme court backs FCC in clash with wireless carriers over fines\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/us-supreme-court-backs-fcc-in-clash-with-wireless-carriers-over-fines\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US supreme court backs FCC in clash with wireless carriers over fines\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}