1st Circuit Will Hear Consolidated Challenges of FCC's Incarcerated Communications Order

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation randomly selected the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear multiple pending petitions for review of an FCC order on incarcerated people's communications services, said an order Thursday. The petitions challenged various parts of the partially published order in the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 9th circuits (see 2408230012).