Crown Castle, Ocean City Need 60 More Days to Complete Their Settlement Agreement

Crown Castle and Ocean City, Maryland, are asking the U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore to extend the stay of their case for another 60 days as they pursue a final settlement, said their joint status report Tuesday (docket 1:21-cv-01812). Under the terms of their Oct. 17 settlement agreement (see 2310170011), certain “conditions precedent are required to take place” before the parties can file a stipulation of dismissal with prejudice, said the report. The parties are in the process of completing those steps, it said. They ask that if the case isn’t jointly dismissed before the expiration of the 60-day stay extension the court require them to submit a second joint status report about “the status of the conditions precedent to dismissal,” it said. Crown Castle sued Ocean City in July 2021 to reverse what it called the city’s unlawful denial of its application to install telecom services equipment in the public rights of way on three new streetlight poles. The city countersued in December 2021, alleging Crown Castle breached the requirements of a 2017 rights of use agreement with the municipality.