Supreme Court Denies Cert in Dish DEs' Appeal of FCC Handling of Bidding Credits

The Supreme Court won't consider an appeal by Dish Network designated entities SNR Wireless and Northstar Wireless about FCC handling of the AWS-3 auction bidding credits, the court said Monday. The DEs' petition for writ of certiorari was distributed last week. The cert petition was seen facing steep odds (see 1801290033). Dish and the DEs have made several changes to Dish's control of the them after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last year upheld the FCC withholding the DEs' AWS-3 auction bidding credits due to their too-close connections to Dish (see 1806080063). Dish and the FCC didn't comment Monday.