$47 million is likely gone for Verizon after the Supreme Court denied, without explanation, its bid to recover an FCC fine over mobile location-data sales.
The denial appears to end Verizon's chance to send the case back to a lower court and argue the fine itself was unlawful after it already lost on the FCC's penalty process.
Verizon had said the FCC effectively tricked it into paying in 2024 by presenting the forfeiture as binding, then later arguing carriers could have refused payment and forced a collection suit.
In June, the court ruled 8-1 against Verizon and AT&T on the Seventh Amendment issue, saying jury trials were available only if carriers declined to pay first.
AT&T and T-Mobile are still contesting similar penalties from the FCC's $196 million crackdown on carriers that sold customers' real-time location data without consent.