One of Mr. Pollard's lawyers, Jacques Semmelman, said the judge had not indicated why Mr. Pollard had been summoned, "but it is apparent that today was a very significant and important proceeding".
It appears that these attacks were meant to inhibit or limit public comment on this important proceeding, raising doubts about the efficacy of the FCC's public comment process.
This is an important proceeding, because it enables intervention of a second nurse to prevent a medication error of the administrator.
Hockey said people should not be able to claim benefits from two schemes, and it was particularly important to proceed in light of the budget week declarations.
And while the Bloomberg administration expressed regrets about the impasse, officials said it was far more important to proceed apace with building a memorial, a transit center and other projects at ground zero.
Although she agreed that "research can be a substitute for action," a kind of displacement activity if you will, she warned that it was important to "proceed on the basis of real, hard evidence".
The evolution of the market has necessitated the reduction of time-to-market, mainly because the product life cycle is shorter, but also because it is very important to proceed more rapidly from an initial conception to a mass production object.
