Dish DEs, VTEL Lock Horns Over Motion to Dismiss Auction 97 Litigation
That neither Dish Network designated entity Northstar Wireless nor SNR Wireless has taken steps in the past four years to deploy a wireless system confirms that the Auction 97 licenses they bought were intended for Dish use, Vermont National Telephone…
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Co. (VTEL) told U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week as it opposed a Northstar/SNR motion to dismiss its complaint. In a docket 15-cv-00728 filing (in Pacer), VTEL said it had made adequate allegations that the defendants had violated the False Claims Act and that the case isn't foreclosed by the government action bar since no penalty was imposed by the FCC. The defendants' motion to dismiss (in Pacer) called VTEL's fraud allegation "implausible" and lacking specificity regarding details about the alleged fraudulent conspiracy.