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DC Circuit Won't Hear Oral Argument on Consolidated Appeal of FCC SureWest Waiver Denial

An appeals court won't hold oral argument on a Consolidated Communications challenge to an FCC order that denied SureWest Telephone a waiver from a federally mandated USF state certification deadline the company missed in 2012. A three-judge panel of the…

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said in a brief order (in Pacer) Friday it will dispose of the petition based on briefs and other filings in Consolidated Communications v. FCC, No. 16-1431. The government argued the commission reasonably denied the request because SureWest confusion leading to a filing error wasn't a "special circumstance" (see 1705110036). Consolidated took over SureWest.