In civilian telecommunications, outside plant refers to all of the physical cabling and supporting infrastructure (such as conduit, cabinets, tower or poles), and any associated hardware (such as repeaters) located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching center or customer premises.
Summary: A Hezbollah suspect allegedly involved in the attempted assassination of MP Boutros Harb last year failed once again to appear in court Friday and faces the possibility of a trial in absentia.
Absent consent, when a lawyer represents a client in one matter, he may not be adverse to that client in a different matter, even if the two matters are wholly unrelated. See Rule 1.7, Cmt. [6]. Rule 1.8 provides an additional caveat for attorneys involved in representing multiple clients simultaneously.