Ninth Circuit Issues Long-Awaited Decision on FCC 5G Infrastructure Order
By Eileen Keiffer On August 12, 2020, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited decision on consolidated appeals of three separate FCC small cell infrastructure orders: the FCC’s Small Cell Order (2018), the Moratoria Order (2018), and the One Touch Make-Ready Order (2018). The Small Cell Order and the Moratoria Order limited local governments’ authority to regulate small cell facilities in the interest of hastening deployment. The O