Lafayette Pro Fiber Blog: The AP & the T-P pick up the story


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Home News Blog An Argument Fact Check On Background Q & A Who are we? Help Out! Blogger: Contributors Mike Stagg John FiberFolk Previous Posts "LUS wins fiber-optic fight" "LUS wins fiber fight" Media Roundup on Supreme Court Win (2-22) City Attorney Ottinger on the Decision FLASH: LUS WINS!!!! Supreme Court Rules in Lafayet... Time Out: Carnival in Lafayette "Fiber costs city $3.5M" The Advertiser Does Video--and more Durel's State of the City: Fiber & Wireless Action item: US House, the FCC, & Lafayette	Friday, February 23, 2007 The AP & the T-P pick up the story The Times-Picayune in New Oreans has picked up an AP story on Lafayette's win in the fiber-optic battle. Pull Quote: The court also threw out a large portion of Naquin's arguments, saying her suit had been filed past the 60-day hard and fast deadline to challenge bond issuances passed through an election. That's the first reaction beyond our media market. I expect many more....this is news far beyond our borders. posted by John at 9:55 AM 3 Comments: Anonymous said... Can they ask for a rehearing? 10:24 AM, February 23, 2007 John said... Anon, There's legal and there's practical. Legally: Yes Practically: No No lawyer who values his standing before the state's highest court is going to waste their time or try their patience by suggesting that the court reconsider a unanimous decision that you lost on every point -- both substantial and procedural. I've learned caution but I can't believe that this will happen. But in 14 days even that door will close. This stage is over. 10:59 AM, February 23, 2007 Anonymous said... Dear little Johnny Please come home we now have fiber here in Lafayette. 11:02 AM, February 23, 2007 Post a Comment Links to this post: <$BlogBacklinkTitle$> <$BlogBacklinkSnippet$> posted by <$BlogBacklinkAuthor$> @ <$BlogBacklinkDateTime$> Create a Link << Home