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title: "Law360 Quotes Partner Alysa Z. Hutnik on 9th Circuit AT&T Ruling"
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# Law360 Quotes Partner Alysa Z. Hutnik on 9th Circuit AT&T Ruling

 August 30, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

Partner [Alysa Z. Hutnik](/Our-People/Alysa-Z-Hutnik) was quoted in the *Law360* article ​“Telecoms Freed From FTC Grasp In 9th Circ. AT&T Ruling.” The article discusses how the Ninth Circuit on Monday took a broad view of the common carrier exemption to the Federal Trade Commission’s enforcement authority in striking down its data throttling action against AT&T, a move that effectively places telecoms outside the reach of the regulator. Ms. Hutnik explained that ​“Whether a company’s common carrier ​‘status’ was sufficient to strip jurisdiction from FTC oversight used to be as clear as mud. With this Ninth Circuit decision that a company’s ​‘status’ prevails over its ​‘activities,’ that makes it a very tough road for the FTC to bring any type of Section 5 of the FTC Act claim against any company that can viably claim common carrier status, even if it engages only minimally in common carrier activities.”

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