Net Neutrality Briefing Proposals Due June 20; DC Circuit Urges Joint Proposal, Briefs
A court gave net neutrality litigants until June 20 to propose briefing formats, noting its concerns about potential duplicative briefing. "The parties are strongly urged to submit a joint proposal and are reminded that the court looks with extreme disfavor…
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on repetitious submissions and will, where appropriate, require a joint brief of aligned parties with total words not to exceed the standard allotment for a single brief," said an order (in Pacer) Monday of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Monday in Mozilla v. FCC, No. 18-1051. "Whether the parties are aligned or have disparate interests, they must provide detailed justifications for any request to file separate briefs or to exceed in the aggregate the standard word allotment." Petitioners have been working on a joint briefing proposal, an involved attorney told us Tuesday.