mr. mccormick, why did you file suit against these new rules? >> guest: peter, the irony here is we support the substance of the rules as around ticklated by the chairman of the fcc and the president of the united states. the open internet standards are to prevent blocking, throttling paid prioritization. but what we're challenging -- and the reason we support them is our industry operates in conformance with those standards today. our industry supports their adoption as regulation. we support their enactment into law by the united states congress. but what we're challenging is the reclassification of internet access from being an information service to a telecommunications service regulated as a common carrier pursuant to century railroad regulation. common carriage as a vestige of the english common law was originally applied to railroads and then to trucking companies and then to airlines but it's been repealed for all of those industries going on over 30 years ago because it proved to impose new costs on consumers, it delayed deployment, slo

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mr. lewis in fact spent time at the fcc as deputy director of the office of legislative affairs. walter mccormick is the former general council to the department of transportation. now the lawsuit has been filled what happens next? >> the courts will set a briefing schedule. so we expect that briefing schedule will occur sometime this summer, then oral arguments in the fall. we will see. i know there are other parties that are now engaged in filing. the cable operators filled on tuesday. we have been in formed there are other parties filing as well. so the court will take the filings and set a briefing schedule and move forward. >> mr. lewis, will the regulations go into affect even with lawsuits spending and what is public knowledge's role in this lawsuit? >> we hope the rules go into affect. we saw in the 2010 open internet rules having the rules in place, even when verizon chose to challenge them was important for consumers. we were able to raise concern that we thought was a potential net neutrality violation while the 2010 rules were in effect. and because we had the rules as a threat the co

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mr. lewis spent time at the fcc. and what are mccormick is at u.s. telecom. what will happen next?he court has set a briefing schedule. that will happen this summer. we will see. there are other parties that are now engaged in filing they will be filing on monday. several other parties, the wireless industry, small cable operators, they could file on tuesday. we have been informed that there are other parties that will file , as well. the court will take the filings and set a briefing schedule. host: will those regulations go into effect even with lawsuits pending and what will be public knowledge's role in this process? christopher lewis: and in 2010 we saw these open internet rules. it was tremendously important for consumers. we were able to raise concern that we thought was a potential violation while the 2010 rules were in effect. because we have those roles as a backstop, the threat, the company we were concerned about, they changed their policies. having a rules is helpful, even while the court is considering. we will certainly wait to see the filings and lawsuits and probab