Settlement Looms in Verizon’s Cell Tower Fight With N.Y. Town
Verizon, on behalf of itself and the town of Saugerties, New York, seeks a seven-week extension to Aug. 18 of the deadline for filing motions for summary judgment “to accommodate the parties’ continued good faith efforts to resolve this matter"…
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via settlement, counsel Scott Olson of Young/Sommer wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Stewart for Northern New York in Albany in a letter Friday (docket 1:22-cv-00107). Olson thinks the parties “have agreed to the general terms and conditions of a settlement,” and he expects soon to “memorialize” those terms and conditions in a draft stipulation and order, he said. Verizon and co-plaintiff Tarpon Towers allege Saugerties unlawfully refused to act on a cell tower application before the shot clock’s expiration, in violation of the Telecommunications Act (see 2301190046).