DC Circuit Seeks Briefing Format Plan, Joint Briefs in FCC Wireless Infrastructure Case
A federal court asked litigants to propose a briefing format by Sept. 17 for tribal challenges to a March FCC wireless infrastructure order. "Parties are strongly urged to submit a joint proposal and are reminded that the court looks with…
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extreme disfavor on repetitious submissions and will, where appropriate, require a joint brief of aligned parties with total words not to exceed the standard allotment for a single brief," said an order (in Pacer) Friday of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in United Keetoowah Band v. FCC, No. 18-1129. "Whether the parties are aligned or have disparate interests, they must provide detailed justifications for any request to file separate briefs or to exceed in the aggregate the standard word allotment."