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Both AT&T and Verizon sold their customers' real-time location data to aggregators who resold it to almost anyone willing to pay.
17, the Supreme Court denied Verizon's petition to recover the $47 million it paid the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the sale of customer location data, ending the carrier's effort without explanation,according to QZ.
Its case took a different procedural path and it still has a live shot at recovering the $57 million it paid.
That gap matters, and it didn't happen by accident.
The fines go back to April 2024, when the FCC penalized four carriers a combined $196 million for selling customers' location data to aggregators without meaningful consent.
They paid under protest and went to court arguing the FCC's enforcement process violated their Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.
The agency, they said, acted as judge and jury by imposing penalties through an administrative process rather than taking them to court.
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The majority held that the carriers weren't denied a jury trial because they could have refused to pay and forced the government to sue them, at which point they could have demanded a jury.
Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter, writing that the carriers paid in good faith believing payment was mandatory and deserved to be made whole.
After losing that argument, Verizon filed an additional petition arguing the FCC had mischaracterized the nature of its forfeiture order to induce payment, then changed its position before the Supreme Court.
The justices denied that petition without comment.
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