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Senate Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were one supporter away from winning a vote to restore the Net Neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission rolled back in December.

As Democrats in the Senate work to push forward a resolution that would stop the FCC from killing Net Neutrality and ending the open and free internet for everyone, multiple lawsuits were filed by different groups with that same goal in mind.

State legislatures are waging their own fight to restore Net Neutrality rules after the Federal Communications Commission moved to scrap them last month.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Free Press filed a petition for review of the FCC’s unpopular Dec. 14 order that repealed the agency’s Net Neutrality rules and reversed the Title II “telecommunications services” classification of broadband-internet access.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Rep. Mike Doyle (D–Pennsylvania) announced that 80 fellow House members have joined him in co-sponsoring legislation to reject the FCC’s Dec. 14 decision to eliminate Net Neutrality.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Senate Democrats announced that the entire Senate Democratic Caucus is now co-sponsoring legislation to restore open-internet protections.

As Net Neutrality gets more public attention, a Senate resolution that would reverse the FCC’s Net Neutrality repeal has 45 supporters.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the House rejected legislation that would have put in place robust privacy protections for people in the United States and Americans abroad, and instead voted to renew a program allowing the government to spy on them without a warrant.

As more than 40 senators back a bipartisan move to overturn the FCC’s assault on the internet, activists chart a difficult but possible path to victory.

The announcement from the Internet Association made clear that companies like Google, Facebook and Netflix would back a legal fight.