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• February 09, 2026

  NTIA Approves Nearly All State Broadband Funding Plans

  The U.S. Department of Commerce has signed off on almost all the recent state-level plans under the government's signature high-speed infrastructure spending initiative, moving projects across the country closer to fruition, a top official said Monday.

• February 09, 2026

  No 2nd Chance For Failed Junk Fax Ad Suit, Colo. Court Says

  An online fax service provider on Monday lost its last chance at convincing a Colorado federal judge not to kill a Telephone Consumer Protection Act suit accusing a group of companies of overwhelming its system with "junk faxes" after the court said no to rethinking its dismissal order.

• February 09, 2026

  8th Circ. Lets Stand Minn. Law Banning Election Deepfakes

  The Eighth Circuit on Monday declined to block Minnesota's law criminalizing deepfakes that are designed to influence elections, holding in a published opinion that a state legislator waited too long to seek emergency relief and that a political commentator who also challenged the statute did not have standing.

• February 09, 2026

  FCC Said To Formally Launch Equal Time Probe At 'The View'

  The Federal Communications Commission has reportedly started a formal investigation into whether ABC's "The View" fails to qualify for a "bona fide" news carveout that would exempt the show from political equal time rules.

• February 09, 2026

  Arbitrator Wrong To Side Against Layoffs, DirecTV Tells Court

  An arbitration award siding with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers over DirecTV's layoff of technicians should be vacated, the company told a Colorado federal court, arguing that the arbitrator improperly altered the parties' collective bargaining agreement to restrict DirecTV's right to subcontract work.

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