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Missing Dog on Shelburne Road in South Burlington

By Pike | Published: April 19, 2010
Missing Dog - The dog, Gus, is small (20-30 lbs) with tan short hair, black muzzle and dark Lab-like ears. Gus jumped out of a car window on Tuesday afternoon in South Burlington on Shelburne Road.  He is a beloved family pet who is missed terribly by his family. He is a friendly dog but [...]
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AT&T’s Motion to Amend Findings and Order

By Pike | Published: March 31, 2010
AT&T Mobility has 30 days after the Court rules on its “Motion to Amend Findings and Order, and for Reconsideration” to respond to my “Motion for Summary Judgment”. I just filed my “Response to…Reconsideration” today so the clock has not yet begun to tick. I learned yesterday at my painting class that judges rotate every [...]
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Court v. Arbitration

By Pike | Published: March 26, 2010
I see my case against AT&T for egregious violations of the TCPA and associated rules and regulations as something of a road map for the other 160,067 legacy Unicel customers. And I’m a curious sort. earlier this year, because I am still getting text messages from AT&T (the last one was confirming they received my request to [...]
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AT&T Class Action Suit and My Motion for Summary Judgment

By Pike | Published: March 26, 2010
I have filed a request of summary judgment. Having found that AT&T provided copies of the sms text messages to VT Asst Atty General Burg, I’m comfortable I have enough corroborating evidence support my main assertion that AT&T did indeed send these messages. I filed on the 25th, just after our status conference with the [...]
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AT&T Motion to Compel Arbitratioin is Denied

By Pike | Published: March 26, 2010
AT&T Mobility’s Motion to Compel Arbitration and Dismiss the Case was denied by the Court on March 18th. Defendant filed the motion on 2/12/2010 and I spent the next week reading about arbitration law and drafting a response. I filed my response 2/13/2010. Judge Helen Toor wrote “Based on the undisputed fact that Porter did not [...]
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Federal Lead Paint Law 42 U.S.C 4582(d)

By Pike | Published: March 20, 2010
If the seller’s property is currently in violation of state or federal lead laws, the seller will need to complete the Vermont lead disclosure. The federal statute reads: (a) Lead disclosure in purchase and sale or lease of target housing (1) Lead-based paint hazards Not later than 2 years after October 28, 1992, the Secretary and the Administrator [...]
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Simon and Schuster settles text message spam dispute

By Pike | Published: March 16, 2010
The 9th Circuit decision in Satterfield v. Simon and Schuster will have huge implications for the impending class-action suit against AT&T Mobility for sending former Unicel customers 30 odd sms text messages in violation of the TCPA. Simon and Schuster sent, I believe, 1 text message. AT&T sent over 30. According to the settlement, each [...]
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More on Burlington Telecom and Comcast

By Pike | Published: March 16, 2010
Comcast service was lousy yesterday evening: slow, timeout errors, unable to connect with certain sites. Friends made the same complaints to me this morning. I’ve been on hold with Comcast for over 1/2 now. I could have driven to their office in South Burlington by this point. So while on hold, I decided to contact Burlington [...]
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Junk Mail

By Pike | Published: February 9, 2010
The Vermont legislature considered enacting  junk mail legislation so that VT residents could choose not to be a part of the waste stream. Sadly, the legislature buckled under pressure of the junk mail lobbyists who claimed that jobs would be lost as a result of the legislation. While Vermont could be creating jobs greening up [...]
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Unicel Customer Sues AT&T for TCPA Violations

By Pike | Published: February 9, 2010
I was a Unicel customer until Verizon Wireless, who purchased Unicel, had to sell the Unicel subscriber contracts to AT&T Mobility to comply with a Federal and Vermont settlement agreement. AT&T quickly made a mess of things. In addition to poor business practices that lead to the Assurance of Discontinuance with the Attorney General, AT&T sent out [...]
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