The voter approved fiber to the home plan in Lafayette, Louisiana has seen no limit of court battles, thanks largely to regional incumbents who don't want the competition. Part of the legal skirmish involved a bond derailing lawsuit by two local plaintiffs, who never actually appeared in court, and whom locals believe were somehow intermediaries for BellSouth and Cox. One of the two recently dropped the case (though it is still headed to the State Supreme Court), and now the Baton Rouge Advocate reports that he is apologizing for his part in the delay.

"It was never my intention to delay the fiber-optic project," Matthew Eastin writes in a letter to Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel. In response, Durel wrote: "I have been led to understand for awhile that you had been taken advantage of, and felt it a shame that your name would forever go down in history as having been a part of something that hurt our community so much." It's not entirely clear from the reports what triggered Eastin's change of heart.