Telecoms Poised to Fight Obama's Net-Neutrality Proposal - McDermott Will & Emery

Telecoms Poised to Fight Obama’s Net-Neutrality Proposal

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Paul Devinsky said that if broadband Internet providers are reclassified as utilities, they might “argue that reclassification is an unlawful taking, in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because it makes their trillion-dollar investment in high-speed Internet, made in reliance on decades of what might be characterized as assurances that they would not be treated as common carriers, less valuable.”