https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181003/11351440770/entire-broadband-industry-just-sued-california-daring-to-protect-net-neutrality.shtml

As expected, the broadband industry filed suit against the state of California today over the state's shiny new net neutrality law. The lawsuit (pdf), filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of California, echoes many of the same arguments made in the DOJ's own recent lawsuit against the state. For a moment, let's just stop and pause to appreciate the fact that the federal government is now, with zero pretense, officially working hand in hand with some of the least-liked monopolies in America to ensure their right to be able to screw you over. It if it wasn't so obnoxious, it could be deemed high art.

Both lawsuits attempt to claim that language embedded in the FCC's net neutrality repeal (at direct Comcast and Verizon lobbyist behest) prohibits states from stepping in and filling the consumer protection void. This "preemption" language and the Telecom Act, the broadband industry insists, both directly prohibit states from protecting consumers from bumbling telecom monopolies: