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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


Certiorari denied · October 5, 2026

Questions presented

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  1. Oct 05 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 10 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  3. Jun 20 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 28, 2026)