FCC v. Brown · ¶4

Just one month later, on October 7, 2026, the same Fourth Circuit panel ordered the Commission to resolve the candidates’ application by October 9, 2026. The Commission thus had 48 hours from the entry of the Fourth Circuit’s mandamus order to issue its final decision. That, the Fourth Circuit believed, was “the only means to finally move forward with . . . judicial review.” App. to Emergency Application for Stay in No. 26A476 (CA4), ECF Doc. 30, p. 18a, n. 2. The mandamus order came just one week after the Commission’s comment period on the candidates’ application had closed, and in the midst of another comment period for a parallel application the Commission was considering in tandem.

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