Northeast Cellular Telephone Company, L.P. v. Federal Communications Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “the FCC has not simply deviated from exemption standards; it never stated any standards in the first place.”
• “the FCC has not simply deviated from exemption standards; it never stated any standards in the first place.”
• “Under the Commission’s blanket statement, future applicants—and this court— have no ability to evaluate the applicability and reasonableness of the Commission’s waiver policy.”
• “Under the Commission’s blanket statement, future applicants — and this court — have no ability to evaluate the applicability and reasonableness of the Commission’s waiver policy.”
• “The agency must explain why deviation better serves the public interest and articulate the nature of the special circumstances to prevent discriminatory application and to put future parties on notice as to its operation.”
• “We hold that the FCC’s decision was arbitrary and capricious because it was not based on any rational waiver policy .... this waiver reflects an outrageous, unpredictable, and unworkable policy that is susceptible to discriminatory application.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).