F.T.C. v. AT&T MOBILITY LLC

No. 15-16585.

883 F.3d 848 (2018)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AT&T MOBILITY LLC, a limited liability company, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 26, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Kellogg (argued) and Mark C. Hansen , Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.; David L. Anderson , Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellant.

Joel Marcus (argued), Director of Litigation; Matthew M. Hoffman and David L. Sieradzki , Attorneys; David C. Shonka , Acting General Counsel; Evan Rose , Matthew D. Gold , and Linda K. Badger , Of Counsel; Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jacob M. Lewis , Associate General Counsel; Scott M. Noveck , Counsel; Jacob M. Lewis , Associate General Counsel; David M. Gossett , Deputy General Counsel; Howard J. Symons and Brendan Carr , General Counsel; Federal Communications Commission, Washington D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Federal Communications Commission.

Seth E. Mermin , Samantha K. Graff , and Thomas Bennigson , Public Good Law Center, Berkeley, California, for Amici Curiae Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, Consumer Federation of California, Consumer Action, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Consumers League, Center for Digital Democracy, Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Benton Foundation, Common Sense Kids Action, and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

Paul K. Ohm , Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; William McGeveran , Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; for Amici Curiae Data Privacy and Security Law Professors.

Charles Duan , M. Ryan Clough , John Gasparini , Sara Kamal , and Jaime Petenko , Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Public Knowledge.

Adin H. Rosenbaum and Sean M. Sherman , Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Senator Richard Blumenthal.

Andrew Jay Schwartzman and Laura Moy , Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Social Justice Organizations.

Patrick J. Massari , Michael Pepson , and Cynthia Crawford , Cause of Action Institute, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Cause of Action Institute.

Henry Weissmann , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, California; Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and Chad I. Golder , Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications, and Verizon.

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Stephen Reinhardt, Susan P. Graber, M. Margaret McKeown, William A. Fletcher, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Milan D. Smith, Jr., N. Randy Smith, Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Paul J. Watford and Michelle T. Friedland, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Although this case began as an effort by the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") to address AT&T Mobility's "data throttling" — a practice by which the company reduced customers' broadband data speed without regard to actual network congestion — the central issue is one of agency jurisdiction...

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