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· 7/16/1999

PLMRS Narrowband Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission

Citations

  • 182 F.3d 995
  • 337 U.S. App. D.C. 196
  • 16 Communications Reg. (P&F) 974
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 16001

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that the FCC's decision to auction licenses and return all pending applications, which had been submitted when the licenses were awarded by a lottery system, was not arbitrary and capricious
  • finding that an applicant who filed an application under lottery rules did not thereby obtain a right to processing by lottery
  • distinguishing an administrator’s “unalterable prejudgment” and “legitimate policy preconceptions”
  • distinguishing an administrator’s “unalterable prejudgment” and “legitimate policy preconceptions”
  • challenges to Commission’s later-modified order are moot

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Judges: Ginsburg, Randolph, Rogers

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