Settlement Looms in Verizon’s Cell Tower Fight With N.Y. Town

Verizon, on behalf of itself and the town of Saugerties, New York, seeks a seven-week extension to Aug. 18 of the deadline for filing motions for summary judgment “to accommodate the parties’ continued good faith efforts to resolve this matter" via settlement, counsel Scott Olson of Young/Sommer wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Stewart for Northern New York in Albany in a letter Friday (docket 1:22-cv-00107). Olson thinks the parties “have agreed to the general terms and conditions of a settlement,” and he expects soon to “memorialize” those terms and conditions in a draft stipulation and order, he said. Verizon and co-plaintiff Tarpon Towers allege Saugerties unlawfully refused to act on a cell tower application before the shot clock’s expiration, in violation of the Telecommunications Act (see 2301190046).