Marc Martin was interviewed for the follow-up article "After FCC Abandons Net Neutrality, States Take Up The Fight," diving more thoroughly into the topics discussed in Wired earlier this week.

"There's been a lot of litigation not just with the FCC but with other agencies about federal preemption," Marc Martin, chair of law firm Perkins Coie’s communications practice. "Courts often look askance at it. It's an aggressive tactic." But he says there is some legal precedent for the FCC's move, pointing to the agency's 2004 decision to quash Minnesota's voice-over-internet-protocol regulations.