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April 6, 2010 Charles Mathias (202) 418-2400
STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER MEREDITH A. BAKER ON D.C. CIRCUIT DECISION 
VACATING THE COMMISSION’S ORDER ON COMCAST’S NETWORK MANAGEMENT 
PRACTICES
I am pleased that the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit emphasizes the 
limits of the Commission’s authority to regulate the Internet.  The D.C. Circuit’s strong words today 
remind us that as an independent agency, we must always be constrained by the statute.  We stray from it 
at our peril.  
With regard to the substantive policy at issue in this case—net neutrality—I would oppose calls 
to use the court’s decision as a pretext to reclassify broadband Internet access services under monopoly-
era Title II regulation. 
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