PDR Network, LLC v. Carlton Harris Chiropractic, Inc.

Decided June 20, 2019. Stephen Gerald Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 17-1705 · 588 U.S. 1 · Cited 63 times

The extent to which a 2006 FCC Order interpreting the term “unsolicited advertisement” binds lower courts may depend on the resolution of two preliminary questions that the Fourth Circuit should address in the first instance: (1) whether the Order is the equivalent of a legislative rule, which has the force and effect of law, or an interpretative rule, which does not; and (2) whether petitioners had a “prior” and “adequate” opportunity to seek judicial review of the Order.

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