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Shannon Irons v. Charter Communications, Inc.
IFP petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B336763 · judgment December 31, 2025
Questions presented
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Whether the Communications Act of 1934 and subsequent federal telecommunications regulations completely preempt state civil rights and consumer protection statutes when an internet service provider engages in deceptive trade practices, predatory billing, and discriminatory infrastructure maintenance.
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Whether the judicial vacatur of FCC Report and Order 23-100 (Digital Discrimination Rules) creates a regulatory vacuum that establishes an urgent national necessity for this Court to clarify whether federal administrative oversight strips states of their sovereign authority to enforce core civil rights and consumer protections under 47 U.S.C. § 414.
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Whether a state court's expansive application of federal preemption doctrine to sustain a demurrer and dismiss statutory civil rights and consumer fraud claims violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment by denying a litigant any judicial forum to remedy direct economic and discriminatory harms.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Shannon Irons
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
Federalism (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 05 2026Petition DENIED.
- Sep 10 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jun 20 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 28, 2026)