Calif. Cities' Challenge to FCC Infrastructure Ruling Could Resume Soon

A long-frozen lawsuit against the FCC by the League of California Cities could thaw this spring. The FCC doesn’t intend to seek further abeyance of the league’s lawsuit against the commission’s June 2020 wireless infrastructure declaratory ruling, the parties said in a Friday joint motion. A stay on the case that began March 19, 2021, and was extended multiple times expired Monday (see 2212160026). The FCC sought the extensions before because it lacked a fifth commissioner, which remains the case. The parties suggested a new schedule in which the FCC’s brief would be due March 1. Intervenors supporting the agency would file by March 8, cities’ reply briefs would be due March 31 and petitioner-side intervenors would file by April 7.