California agrees to delay enforcing net-neutrality law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California won’t enforce the nation’s toughest state-level net-neutrality law when it takes effect in January, agreeing Friday with the Trump administration and internet companies who sued that the state law should wait for the outcome of a separate lawsuit pending in Washington.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra made a joint filing with lawyers looking to block the law asking a federal judge in Sacramento to put the California case on hold for now.
California’s net-neutrality law was celebrated nationally by advocates looking to preserve rules preventing internet companies from speeding or slowing certain content online. It mimicked federal rules adopted during the Obama administration and rolled back under Trump.
“Every step we take, every action we launch is intended to put us in the best position to preserve net neutrality for the 40 million people of our state,” Becerra, a Democrat, said in a statement.