NEW ORLEANS — AT&T successfully petitioned the Fifth Circuit to vacate a $57 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission, which found last year that the wireless carrier had failed to protect the privacy of its customers’ location data. The FCC’s in-house civil forfeiture process violated AT&T’s right to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment. In other words, the FCC improperly “acted as prosecutor, jury, and judge,” the appeals court ruled.
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