9th Circuit Grants AT&T Motion to Stay Its Appeal vs. Ore. County to Enable Settlement Talks

The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals granted AT&T’s unopposed May 21 motion to stay the current briefing schedule in its appeal against Lane County, Oregon, to enable the parties to engage in further settlement talks (see 2405220001), said a clerk’s order Tuesday (docket 24-855). The previously established briefing schedule is vacated, and the appellate proceedings are stayed until Aug. 26, or until further order of the court, said the order. If no motion for further relief is filed before Aug. 26, the briefing schedule will be reset in a future order, it said. AT&T’s appeal contends that a U.S. magistrate judge, in granting summary judgment for Lane County, wrongly found that AT&T was obligated to appeal the county’s denial of its cell tower application to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeal (see 2402220046).