Supreme Court Grants DOJ Motion, Extends Net Neutrality Response Date to March 5

The Supreme Court extended a filing deadline to March 5 for net neutrality litigants, according to the court's docket webpage for Daniel Berninger, et al. v. FCC, No. 17-498, and combined cases. After three previous extensions, the DOJ solicitor general Friday requested that a Feb. 2 deadline for responding to cert petitions be extended to March 5, and the court did so Tuesday for all respondents. Berninger and others asked the high court to review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's affirmation of the previous commission's 2015 Title II net neutrality order. Some doubt justices will agree to review the case on the merits because they believe it has become moot under the current rollback of Title II net neutrality regulation (see 1801080036).