SIC Petitions Entire Appeals Court for Rehearing Over Missed Deadline
Sandwich Isles Communications petitioned for the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reconsider the D.C. Circuit's dismissal of SIC's appeal because it had missed an FCC deadline (see 1905170020). The agency alleges improper USF payments to…
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the company. SIC said (in Pacer) Friday that an FCC employee didn't have authority to impose statutory limitations on seeking review of an order during the recent government shutdown. If there's not a full-court rehearing, the telecom company "requests a panel rehearing based on the panel’s misapprehension of the public notices issued by the FCC concerning the timing of the agency’s suspension of operations."