( July 1, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In consolidated cases in the U.S. Supreme Court in which Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. assert constitutional challenges to the Federal Communications Commission’s enforcement of monetary forfeitures under the Communications Act, Verizon filed a petition for rehearing seeking to modify the court’s disposition from affirmance to affirmance with a remand in the court’s holding that the FCC’s forfeiture orders do not violate the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because forfeiture proceedings do not resolve the parties’ legal obligations....