Attorney General Lisa Madigan and 21 attorneys general filed on Tuesday a multistate lawsuit to block the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) illegal rollback of net neutrality. The coalition filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit against the FCC and the federal government. The repeal of net neutrality would have dire consequences for consumers and businesses in Illinois and across the country that rely on a free and open internet – allowing internet service providers to block certain content, charge consumers more to access certain sites, and slow the quality of content from content providers that don’t pay more. In December 2017, Madigan and a coalition of attorneys general urged the FCC to delay its vote in light of widespread reports that millions of comments received by the FCC in its net neutrality rulemaking process were submitted under fraudulent or stolen identities. Under the Administrative Procedure Act, the FCC cannot make “arbitrary and capricious” changes to existing policies, such as net neutrality. The FCC’s new rule fails to justify the FCC’s departure from its long-standing policy and practice of defending net neutrality, while misinterpreting and disregarding critical record evidence on industry practices and harm to consumers and businesses. Joining Madigan in filing the lawsuit were the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.