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NO BILL is best. (none / 0) (#4)
by Ben Masel on Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 05:20:46 PM EST
No wiretap authority after February, no immunity.

On the news of Reid's move, AAA shares up 0.36 (1.48%).

Under the Wiretap Act, statutory damages are $10,000 per agrieved party, or arguably per phone line. If, as I suspect, there was a period when the traffic analysis engine was not properly certified by the AG (The Ashcroft hospital affair), we're looking at a hundred million plaintiffs times $10,000, or a trillion buckjs, 4 times ATT's market capitalistion.

I'll leave it to any respondents knowledgable inBannkruptcy lay to suggest how that would play out.


This is a test of the Emergency Free Speech System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency, I'd already be locked up.

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