( August 17, 2026, 11:35 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 17 denied Verizon Communications Inc.’s petition for rehearing seeking to modify the court’s disposition from affirmance to affirmance with a remand as to Verizon only following the court’s holding that the Federal Communications Commission’s forfeiture orders do not violate the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in consolidated cases in which Verizon and AT&T Inc. asserted constitutional challenges to the FCC’s enforcement of monetary forfeitures under the Communications Act....