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Leahy serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on antitrust, business rights and competition, which last week convened a hearing to explore ways to protect fans and cities from franchise hopping. "If you take a look at the camera banks outside, they outnumber Whitewater and Bosnia," said Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. True, but the real spectacle outside the hearing room in the Dirksen building was the 200-member Dawg Pound. These avid Browns fans lined up along the wall in the hallway dressed in their team colors and various canine guises. When Tagliabue passed by, they implored...
...opportunity to show how much they care. White promised that "as long as there is no team in Cleveland, there will be no peace." Glenn and Stokes said they would introduce in their respective Houses a bill called the Fans Rights Act, which would 1) grant a limited antitrust exemption shielding a professional sports league from a lawsuit if the league blocks a relocation, and 2) require a team intending to move to give 180 days' notice, during which time the jilted hometown could try to induce it to stay. Houston Mayor Bob Lanier, who is about to lose...
Bill Gates may soon face questions beyond those about his new bestselling book. Justice Department attorneys are reportedly expanding their antitrust probe of Microsoft and have issued several new civil subpoenas to Microsoft competitors, including Compuserve, Netscape and Netcom, to investigate whether the software giant intentionally set up bugs in its new Windows 95 operating system to disable rival internet access programs. Since the August release of Windows 95, numerous companies have complained that Microsoft's accompanying browser, called "Plus!", conflicts and in some cases disables competing browsers when users access the internet through Windows. Don't blame us, Microsoft...
...introduce legislation to make it more difficult for teams to move. The "Fans Rights Act," to be sponsored by Rep. Martin Hoke (R-Ohio) and Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), would require teams intending to relocate to give 180 days notice to the host community, and also provide an antitrust exemption to shield other professional sports leagues from lawsuits if they decide to block a relocation. The Browns move, which is scheduled to take place next year, has left the city of Cleveland so distraught that Mayor Michael White testified Wednesday before a Senate subcommittee hearing on antitrust issues raised...
...finance a $245 billion G.O.P. tax cut for the wealthy. The acrimony between the two parties grew more bitter still when the American Medical Association announced it was endorsing the G.O.P. plan. The apparent quid pro quo: Republicans agreed to spare doctors from fee reductions, exempt them from certain antitrust restrictions and cap large malpractice awards...