Judge OKs Extension in Infrastructure Case Headed for Settlement

U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel for Massachusetts in Boston entered an electronic order Wednesday (docket 1:22-cv-11789) granting the unopposed motion of the town of Acushnet, Massachusetts, for a deadline extension to Jan. 27 to answer Verizon’s Oct. 15 complaint that the town violated the Telecommunication Act’s Section 332 (see 2211290006). Verizon and Acushnet are engaged in settlement talks, and the deadline extension “will preserve limited public resources,” said the unopposed motion. Verizon alleges that when Acushnet and its board denied a Verizon application for a special permit to build and operate a proposed wireless facility, the town failed to put its denial reasons in a written decision, as the statute requires.