9th Circuit Agrees to Earlier Argument in FCC Small-Cells Order Appeal
Despite FCC opposition, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted local governments’ request to expedite oral argument on the various challenges of the commission’s wireless infrastructure orders (see 1910040016). “The Clerk shall calendar these petitions as soon as practicable,”…
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the court wrote in a Monday order (in Pacer). It referred the localities’ other request to split the case into two oral arguments to the assigned panel. “This case is being considered for an upcoming oral argument calendar in Pasadena,” said a separate entry Monday in docket 19-70123. The court asked parties to consider February and two subsequent sitting months in its schedule. The FCC didn’t comment Tuesday.