Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Federal Communications Commission

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.

Concurring opinion filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.

Concurring opinion filed by Senior Circuit Judge EDWARDS.

WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge:

Regulations of the Federal Communications Commission, adopted under the mandate of § 616 of the Communications Act of 1934 and virtually duplicating its language, bar a multichannel video programming distributor (“MVPD”) such as a cable company from discriminating against unaffiliated programming networks in decisions about content distribution. More specifically, the regulations bar such…