U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee scheduled oral argument for Friday at 10 a.m. CST on Verizon’s Dec. 4 motion for a preliminary injunction against the city of Milwaukee (see 2312050022), said a text-only docket notice Friday (docket 2:23-cv-01581). Verizon seeks the injunction to force Milwaukee to issue all permits necessary for the installation of small cells and special poles in the city’s Deer District in time for July’s Republican National Convention in the Fiserv Forum. The preliminary injunction motion is on an expedited briefing schedule because Verizon contends it needs approval of its small-cells applications by Jan. 29 to be sure that the special poles and equipment it needs for the installations will be ready in time for the convention. Verizon contends that the city’s denials violate Section 332 of the Telecommunications Act, and that the small cells are needed to prevent coverage gaps and dropped calls during the convention. The city maintains that it can’t approve the small-cells applications for land within the Deer District that it leased away to private entities and now doesn’t control.
Finished chassis imported by Pitts Enterprises that include Chinese-origin axles and landing gears are covered by antidumping and countervailing subsidy duties on chassis from China, the Commerce Department said in a Jan. 10 scope ruling.
Smith Bagley Chairman Kevin Frawley and others from the provider discussed the rules for a proposed 5G auction with aides to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 20-32. Auction mechanisms “must treat remote Tribal lands as a special case to ensure that these highest-cost areas are not excluded from receiving support as a result of an auction process,” the company said. Smith Bagley said it has nearly 100,000 subscribers, many of whom didn’t previously have a phone. It estimated that about 400 of its towers must be upgraded and another 400 constructed to cover its tribal lands with 5G at 35/3 Mbps speeds.
Finished chassis imported by Pitts Enterprises that include Chinese-origin axles and landing gears are covered by antidumping and countervailing subsidy duties on chassis from China, the Commerce Department said in a Jan. 10 scope ruling.
The Commerce Department is set to lower the countervailing duty for two Chinese solar cell exporters, removing adverse facts available rates for certain programs and changing several cost calculation methods, it said in remand results filed with the Court of International Trade (Risen Energy Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00231).
The Peregrine lunar lander leaked too much propellant to be able to land softly on the moon, Astrobotic posted Tuesday on X. The robotic lander was launched Monday but developed a propellant leak (see 2401080072). The company said it continues to receive data from Peregrine and is "proving spaceflight operations for components and software" for its next lunar lander mission.
The FCC Public Safety Bureau Tuesday approved a waiver request by Alert SouthBay allowing wireless carriers to participate in a wireless emergency alert test in Los Angeles County's South Bay region. The test was scheduled to start at 11:20 a.m. PSD that day. “We are persuaded it is in the public interest to allow ... Alert SouthBay to test WEA’s performance over the County’s variety of geographic and demographic conditions, especially considering recent land movement and landslides, as well as the prevalent high fire risk,” the bureau said in post in docket 15-91. Alert SouthBay later confirmed the test took place.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Jan. 2 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
China imposed sanctions on five American defense-related entities for their involvement in U.S. military sales to Taiwan, a spokesperson for the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Jan. 7, according to an unofficial translation. The designations target BAE Systems Land and Armaments, Alliant Techsystems Operations, AeroVironment, Viasat and Data Link Solutions. Beijing said the sanctions will freeze any of their property in China and bar Chinese businesses, organizations and people “from conducting transactions, cooperation and other activities with them.”
The FDA this week alerted industry about changes to its Export Listing Module for applications related to seafood exports to Saudi Arabia.