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SCOTUS To Hear Small ISPs' Case Against AT&T
snydeq writes "The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an antitrust case that alleges AT&T squeezed out small ISPs by charging too much for wholesale access to its phone network. The case, originally brought to US District Court in 2003, had been appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But AT&T requested the case be heard by the Supreme Court on the grounds that prior conflicting appeals court decisions in this area should be resolved at that level. As part of the case, the Supreme Court will likely also ascertain whether AT&T could be held to violate antitrust law without setting its retail prices below its own cost."
... what, no takers?
Where I'm from that would be most unpleasant, not mention unsanitary!!
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.- Shelley
Hail Ye SCOTUS
Swift to save
habeas corpus,
ISP codpiece, and:
Burma Shave
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
That would never work. These guys would be easily bribed with lavish gifts, like cookies and milk. That would never happen with SCOTUS.
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.- Shelley
The small ISPs were the ones that were allowing terrorists to upload child pornography via spam and phishing messages. I think that should be enough to get them shut down now.
-- Bill Gates
My blog
I misread it as a porn-related article.
Thanks to Stephen Colbert for explaining the AT&T breakup and re-merger in this video.