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Cable Equal Access Case Goes to Supreme Court
DCTooTall writes "The FCC has ruled that Cable High-Speed Internet is an Information Service, and therefore not subject to the same equal access regulations that govern DSL. Brand-X Networks sued the FCC for equal access to the Cable Networks and won. The FCC appealed the decision and next Tuesday the case goes to the Supreme Court. The Telco's have repeatedly used the current FCC stance on Cable Broadband in their fight to get the same monopoly on DSL. This case has the potential to not only open the Cable networks to competition, but also prevent the Telco's from further attempts on limiting DSL options."
They're not considering Schiavo because every court has held that the Florida court has acted properly, and there's no legal reason to retry the case in a higher court. The Supreme Court isn't for Republicans who want to cry to mommy when daddy says "no". SC appeals require that justice has not been served in the lower court, and Schiavo's parents have had their days - years - in court. Let the husband bury his wife in peace, instead of perverting the entire system of US justice to have a political argument about metaphysics. Our courts are for mundane matters like network access, not for faith debates.
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It has happened thousands of times before. What has never happened before is another party (her parents) having the money and the political savvy to involve politicians in the process.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
One involves the FCC, which is a federal agency, while the other focuses on state law. Provided that the state law isn't violating some federal law, or especially the US constitution, the SCOTUS should definately put it pretty low on the priority list. Actually, I think the SCOTUS' policy is not to get involved at all in cases that are at the state level--that is, they are in the state's juristiction rather than federal jurisdiction.