5th Circuit Grants Stay of USF Ruling Pending FCC Cert Petition
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the FCC's unopposed motion to stay its ruling in favor of Consumers' Research's USF contributions challenge pending the commission's petition for a writ of certiorari before the U.S. Supreme Court in an…
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order Monday (docket 22-60008). The stay will expire Oct. 1, the order said. The FCC said in its motion that the Solicitor General "recently authorized the filing of a petition," adding that the decision "threatens to disrupt the operation of a multi-billion-dollar subsidy program."