Neustar, FCC/DOJ Ask Court To Push Back Briefing Schedule in LNPA Case

Both sides sought more time to file briefs in Neustar's challenge to an FCC order giving Telcordia conditional rights to the next local number portability administrator (LNPA) contract (Neustar v. FCC, No. 15-1080). Neustar (the incumbent LNPA), the FCC and the Department of Justice filed a joint motion Thursday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to move back briefing deadlines by a week to two weeks to accommodate "competing work demands." They said that intervenors CTIA, Telcordia and USTelecom, which back the FCC, consented to the motion. Under the proposed new schedule, Neustar's brief would be due Sept. 21, the FCC/DOJ brief would be due Oct. 28, intervenors' brief would be due Nov. 12, Neustar's reply brief would be due Nov. 25 and final briefs incorporating an index would be due Dec. 17. The D.C. Circuit recently set the current schedule (see 1508050023).