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WASHINGTON: Microsoft has fired its first shot in the courts since the Department of Justice and 20 states began their antitrust suit, and it seems that Bill Gates's time as Mr. Nice Guy may have been short-lived. The software giant's filing Tuesday not only denies, point by point, each of the antitrust allegations against it, but countersues the states for a reimbursement of the company's legal fees in the case -- and demands a dismissal of the entire suit...
...would have been Starr vs. Ginsburg all right. I can still picture the scene in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's courtroom. The judge has just admonished Starr for repeated, irrelevant citings of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Ginsburg is sneering, although he too has had to be told by Judge Johnson that the Marina del Rey tummy-tuck suit he keeps leaning on as a precedent is not germane in federal criminal cases. In the back row, a couple of criminal defense attorneys who specialize in defending drunk drivers and barroom brawlers are attempting unsuccessfully to suppress giggles...
...risk in asking for the injunction and they knew that the factual foundation for the request was going to be very austere. They took a chance. They gambled a bit here," says William Kovacic, a law professor at George Mason University and former FTC official who specializes in antitrust...
...million it's paying for the cable business -- but it's worth it, says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec: "AT&T needed this. It gives them a way to get into the local phone market that they couldn't figure out before -- and spares them the antitrust uproar that would have come if they had bought back a Baby Bell...
...last week's issue, TIME interviewed Bill Gates about the impending antitrust case. On Friday, Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy and senior correspondent Bruce van Voorst talked to Joel Klein...