Source: http://www.fcc.gov/print/node/44614
Timestamp: 2014-03-14 09:31:36
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Case No: 01', 'Case No: 04', 'Case No: 06', 'Case No: 06', 'Case No: 07', 'Case No: 08', 'Case No: 08', 'Case No: 11', 'Case No: 11', 'Case No: 11', 'Case No: 11', 'Case No: 11']

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Updated: January 4, 2013 LIST OF PENDING APPELLATE CASES Name: Ion Media Chicago License, Inc. v. FCC Case No: 01-1457 Court: District of Columbia Circuit FCC Order Description: In re: Paxson Chicago License, Inc. v. 21st Century TV Cable, Inc., et al., DA 01-149, 16 FCC Rcd 2185 and Paxson Chicago License, Inc. v. 21st Century TV Cable, Inc., et al., 16 FCC Rcd 15571 (2001). Not docketed. FCC Order No. 01-226 Case Description: Paxson challenges the FCC’s denial of its “must carry” complaints against thirteen Chicago cable operators on the basis of a finding that no current FCC rules require mandatory carriage of both a broadcaster’s digital and analog signal among other things. Status: Held in abeyance. Name: EchoStar Satellite L.L.C. v. FCC Case No: 04-1033 Court: District of Columbia Circuit FCC Order Description: In re: implementation of Section 302 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, et al., 18 FCC Rcd 20885 and Order on Reconsideration, 18 FCC Rcd 27059 (2003). FCC Docket No. CS 97-80 and PP 00-67. FCC Order No. 03-329. Case Description: Petitioner Challenges the FCC order which adopted regulations to facilitate the direct connection of digital “navigation devices” or customer premises equipment purchased from retail outlets to cable TV and other multichannel video programming distributor systems. Status: Motion to Govern Further Proceedings granted by September 30, 2011 Order. Initial brief filed February 16, 2012 and final brief filed March 30, 2012. Oral argument held September 14, 2012. Name: James A. Kay, Jr., et al. v. FCC Case No: 06-1076 Court: District of Columbia Circuit FCC Order Description: In re: improving public safety communications in the 800 MHz band, 22 FCC Rcd 10467 (2007) and previous underlying orders. FCC Docket No. WT 02-55, et al. FCC Order No. 05-174, et al. Case Description: Petitioners challenge the FCC’s decisions restructuring the 800 MHz band to reduce radiofrequency interference to public safety systems. Among other things, they claim that the decisions unfairly discriminate between similarly situated parties. Status: Held in abeyance. Name: Sprint Nextel Corporation v. FCC Case No: 06-1278 Court: District of Columbia Circuit FCC Order Description: In re: review of the spectrum sharing plan among non-geostationary satellite orbit mobile satellite service systems in the 1.6/2.4 GHz bands, 19 FCC Rcd 13356 (2004), et al. FCC Docket No. WT 03-66, et al. FCC Order No. 04-134 and 06-46. Case Description: Petitioner seeks review of the FCC’s orders in which the FCC adopted a plan for spectrum sharing among operators in the 2495-2690 MHz bands. Status: Held in abeyance. 2
Name: Tribune Company v. FCC Case No: 07-1488 Court: District of Columbia Circuit FCC Order Description: In re: shareholders of Tribune Co., and Sam Zell, et al. for consent to the transfer of control of the Tribune Co. and applications for the renewal of license of KTLA(TV), Los Angeles, 22 FCC Rcd 21266 (2007). FCC Docket No. MB 07-119. FCC Order No. 07-211. Case Description: Appellants challenge the FCC’s denial of their request for a waiver in selected markets of the FCC’s “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule,” which prohibits common ownership of a daily newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market. Status: Held in abeyance. Name: National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates v. FCC Case No: 08-1226 Court: District of Columbia Circuit FCC Order Description: In re: petition of AT&T Inc. for forbearance from enforcement of certain of the FCC’s cost assignment rules, MO&O, 23 FCC Rcd 7302 (2008). FCC Docket No. 07-21, 05-342. FCC Order No. 08-120 Case Description: NASUCA challenges the FCC’s AT&T Cost Allocation Forbearance Order in which the FCC forbears from applying certain “cost assignment” rules to AT&T (e.g., re: Section 32.23-nonregulated activities; Section 32.27-transactions with affiliates). Status: Held in abeyance. 3
Name: Iridium Satellite LLC v. FCC Case No: 08-1374 Court: District of Columbia Circuit FCC Order Description: In re: Globalstar Licensee LLC; application for modification of license for operation of ancillary terrestrial component facilities, 2008 WL 4774967 (rel. October 21, 2008). FCC Docket No. SAT-MOD-20080516ETC. FCC Order No. 08-254. Case Description: Petitioner challenges FCC order that modifies Globalstar’s license in order to permit the use of WiMAX air interface protocol, and provide an interim waiver of certain ancillary terrestrial component (“ATC”) gating criteria and technical rules. Status: Held in abeyance. Name: Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless v. FCC Case No: 11-1135 Court: D.C. Circuit FCC Order Description: In the Matter of Reexamination of Roaming Obligations of Commercial Mobile Radio Service Providers and Other Providers of Mobile Data Services (rel. April 7, 2011). Docket No. WT 05-265. FCC Order No. 11-52 Case Description: Verizon Wireless challenges a Commission rulemaking order that requires facilities-based providers of commercial mobile data services to offer data roaming arrangements to other such providers on commercially reasonable terms, subject to certain limitations. Status: Notice of Appeal filed May 13, 2011. Per May 26, 2011 Order, case no. 11-1136 is consolidated with this case. Initial brief filed January 9, 2012 and final brief filed March 8, 2012. Oral argument held September 20, 2012. Opinion issued December 4, 2012 affirming the Commission’s data roaming rule. 4
Name: Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless v. FCC Case No: 11-1136 Court: D.C. Cir. FCC Order Description: In the Matter of Reexamination of Roaming Obligations of Commercial Mobile Radio Service Providers and Other Providers of Mobile Data Services (rel. April 7, 2011). Docket No. WT 05-265. FCC Order No. 11-52 Case Description: Verizon Wireless challenges a Commission rulemaking order that requires facilities-based providers of commercial mobile data services to offer data roaming arrangements to other such providers on commercially reasonable terms, subject to certain limitations Status: Petition for Review filed May 13, 2011. Per May 26, 2011 Order, case is consolidated with case no. 11-1135. Name: American Electric Power Service Corp., et al. v. FCC Case No: 11-1146 Court: D.C. Cir. FCC Order Description: Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration – A National Broadband Plan for Our Future Case Description: Several utility companies challenge the pole attachment rules adopted in Implementation of Section 224 of the Act. Status: Petition for Review filed May 18, 2011. Petitioner’s Motion to Stay denied by August 5, 2011 Order. FCC’s Motion to Hold Case in Abeyance and to Defer Filing of the Record denied by September 16, 2011 Order. Record filed September 19, 2011. Initial brief filed February 17, 2012. Final brief filed April 3, 2012. Oral argument scheduled for January 23, 2013. 5
Name: PMCM TV, LLC v. FCC Case No: 11-1330 Court: D.C. Cir. FCC Order Description: In the Matter of: Reallocation of Channel 2 from Jackson, Wyoming to Wilmington, Delaware and Reallocation of Channel 3 from Ely, Nevada to Middletown Township, New Jersey (Sept. 15, 2011). Not Docketed. FCC Order No. 11-135 Case Description: Appeal from Commission decision denying a request from licensees of two television stations operating on channels currently allocated to communities in Wyoming and Nevada to reallocate those channels to communities in Delaware and New Jersey pursuant to Section 331(a) of the Communications Act. Status: Notice of Appeal filed September 19, 2011. Record filed November 7, 2011. Brief filed February 2, 2012. Oral argument held October 18, 2012. Reversed and Remanded by Opinion December 14, 2012. Name: Verizon v. FCC Case No: 11-1355 Court: D.C. Cir. FCC Order Description: In the Matter of: Preserving the Open Internet; Broadband Industry Practices (rel. Dec. 23, 2010) FCC 10-201; GN Docket No. 09-191; WC Docket No. 07-52.C. Cir. Case Description: Verizon challenges the Commission's implementation of rules safeguarding the openness of the Internet. Status: Notice of Appeal filed September 30, 2011. Notice of Multicircuit Petitions for Review filed October 5, 2011. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation randomly selected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in which to consolidate these petitions for review on October 6, 2011. Initial brief filed September 10, 2012. Court order dated July 3, 2012 granted Voluntary Dismissal of Case No. 11-1411 (Free Press). Sur-reply brief filed January 4, 2013. Final briefs due January 18, 2013. 6