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		_DeadFred_ on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges And in the rare cases when someone wins they court will do an 'as applied' ruling, meaning only for this specific case and unable to be used as precedent in any other cases.

qingcharles on July 19, 2024 [–]

They're doing this with alarming regularity in the last decade. This used to be rarely used, but is now almost the norm.

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