Intelligible Principles

April 3, 2023

Without reference to the Federalist Papers or the records from the Constitutional Convention, the Fifth Circuit held in Consumers’ Research v. FCC that the six criteria in 47 U.S.C. § 254(b) gave the FCC “intelligible principles” to guide its regulation of communication, unlike the “total absence of guidance” identified last year in Jarkesy v. SEC, 34 F.4th 446 (5th Cir. 2022). No. 22-60008 (March 24, 2023).

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