AP: Verizon phone records case moved to California

[Eugene]

Verizon phone records case moved to California
February 18, 2007, 4:01 PM EST

BANGOR, Maine -- A federal judge in California will hear arguments
in the federal government's attempt to stop Maine regulators from
forcing Verizon to say whether it provided customer call records
to the government without a warrant.

There was no explanation for moving the case, but U.S. District
Judge John Woodcock noted in an earlier proceeding that the
California court has a process for reviewing classified information
that's expected to be part of the case.

The Maine case is one of six pending lawsuits a panel of federal
judges combined with similar ones last week to be heard by U.S.
District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission and the Maine Civil Liberties
Union, an intervenor in the case, had opposed moving the lawsuit
out of Maine.

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Full article: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--phonerecords-main0218feb18,0,5415427.story

[Bitwit1234]

1. Is that why they fired the California district prosecutor

Didn't bush just fire some of the California lawyers and put some of his loyalist in.

[Miss Chybil]

2. My first thoughts exactly!

I don't know if the two would have anything to do with each other, but my own cynicism is beginning to amaze me!

[struggle4progress]

3. Walker was nominated by GHWB and promoted under GWB