A peculiar "network neutrality" fruit
The Maine Public Utilities Commission suit against Verizon, in which the Maine Civil Liberties Union has intervenor status, has been combined with similar cases filed in Missouri, New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont, and will be heard by Judge Vaughn Walker, in San Francisco.
Is wiretap a regulatory question, or is it really a civil rights and constitutional matter buried under a regulatory facade? Chris Miller's been on top of this, and it is much, much more important than anything else that is in front of the Maine Legislature this session.
- Judge blocks Verizon hearing (Gregory D. Kesich, PPH)
- Judge scuttles Verizon hearing (Judy Harrison, BDN)
- PUC's Contempt Case Against Verizon Heard in Federal Court (Sara Nics, MPBN)
- Judge Woodcock's TRO 2007-02-08
Judge Walker appears to be profoundly unaware of the workings of the commercial DBMS market, he's hearing the DOJ's anti-trust suit against Oracle, which means he may fall back upon obsoleted model of how tap works in a modern switched voip+circuit hybrid voice fabric provisioned by ILECs and CLECs.