Last November a California man filed suit against Comcast for the company's traffic shaping practices, which involve forging TCP packets in order to throttle upstream p2p traffic. While Comcast insisting their brand of network management is "reasonable" might thwart the FCC's investigation into the practice, the courts may see things differently. A second, class-action lawsuit has sprung up in Washington DC.

According to a statement from the law firm involved, Comcast is misleading customers by saying they offer the "fastest Internet connection," because the ISP "intentionally blocks or impedes its customer's access to peer-to-peer file sharing." We're actually (almost) starting to feel bad for Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas, who has been forced to repeat the same stock quote to hundreds of news outlets by now (including us):Comcast isn't commenting publicly on any lawsuits they're facing.