Supreme Court upholds FCC’s ability to penalize AT&T and Verizon

The Supreme Court handed the Federal Communications Commission a victory on Thursday, upholding its ability to penalize telecommunications companies by finding that its scheme for levying fines is constitutional. The high court ruled 8-1 in favor of the federal agency in the consolidated cases FCC v. AT&T and Verizon Communications v. FCC. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the [