https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3ekam/the-fcc-says-net-neutrality-lawsuits-are-moot-because-it-already-repealed-net-neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission is making every effort to shut down lawsuits against its decision to repeal net neutrality, including employing some arcane and somewhat desperate legal strategies.

Put as simply as possible, the FCC wants to have a previous court decision on net neutrality rules scrapped from the legal record, which would eliminate a precedent for net neutrality proponents currently challenging the agency. The FCC’s reasoning for requesting the scrap, though, is that those net neutrality rules don’t exist anymore...because the FCC reversed them…which is why they’re being challenged in court in the first place.