Dish Lays Out Exhibit Plans Ahead of Monday's D.C. Circuit Oral Argument
Dish Network plans to use three oversized exhibits during Monday’s oral argument in support of its challenge of the FCC’s determination that SpaceX’s Gen2 Starlink system won't cause harmful interference to geostationary satellite operations such as Dish’s direct broadcast satellite…
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system (see 2312040033), Dish’s counsel, Steptoe partner Pantelis Michalopoulos, wrote Mark Langer, clerk of the U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit, in a letter Monday (docket 23-1001). One of the exhibits will be a reproduction of a graphic in Dish’s April 14 opening brief depicting Dish’s geostationary satellites in Earth orbit, said Michalopoulos. The second, reproduced from the parties’ joint appendix, purports to show the congestion that the SpaceX constellation will cause, he said. The third is a timeline of events in the proceeding, he said. Each exhibit will be placed on an easel, said Michalopoulos. The exhibits will also be printed as a handout for the three-judge D.C. Circuit panel, he said. They will be helpful to the court “in illustrating issues central to this matter,” he said.