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...lawyers [April 10] distorts a speech I made 20 years ago. It was not made, as you assert, "before an appreciative audience of Stanford law students." It was delivered at a seminar on protracted cases for U.S. judges. My speech contrasted judicial control with noncontrol of the protracted Government antitrust case. I did not articulate or advocate the "wear-'em-down" philosophy as your article states...
...immediate problems, so many large companies are moving into solar power with an eye to the future that Congress is already worried about antitrust problems. Most of the firms are looking for better and less costly ways of collecting the sun's energy and storing it for rainy days or nighttime use, with one ultimate aim of exporting their technology to less developed countries. General Electric recently developed a tank that uses common salt to store for long periods heat collected by solar panels. Along with Owens-Illinois, G.E. is also working on advanced vacuum-tube rooftop solar collectors...
...peripheral information "relating to" the lawsuit. The wear-'em-down philosophy was articulated by Cravath, Swaine & Moore Senior Partner Bruce Bromley in a speech before an appreciative audience of Stanford law students 20 years ago: "I was born, I think, to be a protractor ... I could take the simplest antitrust case and protract it for the defense almost to infinity ... [One case] lasted 14 years ... Despite 50,000 pages of testimony, there really wasn't any dispute about the facts ... We won that case, and, as you know, my firm's meter was running all the time?every month...
Paper wars: trying to drown the other side in motions, interrogatories, depositions, pleadings, cross-claims and countersuits. Exploiting every procedural nook, cranny and nuance in order to avoid or delay trial on the merits. Often used to great effect in complex antitrust cases...
...What is more, Berkey's is not the only suit Kodak is contesting. Others have been filed by Pavelle, a tiny New Jersey firm that went bankrupt in 1975, and by GAF. There also is evidence that the Justice Department may be preparing an antitrust suit against the company...