Media Alliance, in partnership with Great Public Schools New and with legal representation by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) has been granted intervenor status in the 8th Circuit of the Court of Appeals to protect the FCC’s new digital discrimination rules.

The DD rules are a historic first that define the discriminatory provision of digital services (including broadband) as practices that result in disparities, whether or not the “intention” to discriminate can be proven.

This is a huge advance in digital rights law, as it is perniciously hard to prove intent, even when outcomes of certain practices are clearly discriminatory.

Our petition will allow us to file briefs and robustly participate in legal challenges to these critical rules. It is great news that intervenor status has been granted!

Below is our petition and the FCC’s rulemaking document