Multiple internet service and cable providers are seeking an enjoinment of Vermont legislation they say bars them from obtaining state contracts if they fail to meet state-level net neutrality laws. The lawsuit comes from the same group that filed a suit against California’s state attorney general for alleged net neutrality overreach. 

On Oct. 18, a coalition of associations—the American Cable Association; the Wireless Association; the Internet & Television Association; the New England Cable & Telecommunications Association; and USTelecom—filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont seeking to enjoin Vermont’s Executive Order No. 2-18 and Senate Bill 289.