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...that case, but in 1997 Boies left Cravath after the firm refused to let him represent the New York Yankees in its antitrust suit against Major League Baseball. Cravath's longtime client Time Warner owns the Atlanta Braves, a defendant in the suit. Boies started his own firm, where three of his children are now among its 60 attorneys. He has burnished his reputation lately by breaking up an international vitamin cartel, being called in by a federal judge to handle a class action against Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses, and representing Napster in its fight against...
...dismiss the case as "improvidentially granted." This neat bit of 19th-century verbiage simply means the Court has decided, for whatever reason, that it is not interested in ruling on the case. If this happens, the case bounces back to the previous court (the 11th district circuit court in Atlanta). And since those judges have already heard the case (and ruled against Bush), unless there is a new twist in the case compelling the court to revisit the arguments, Bush loses automatically. The legal focus would then revert to the Leon County courthouse, where Gore's contest of the election...
...proof only that the team is doing everything possible to compete with baseball's best teams, and given what Boston is up against, that is no small task. Sox CEO John Harrington simply doesn't have the seating capacity or the luxury boxes that Ted Turner has in Atlanta, and he certainly doesn't have the kind of sweet television package that lines George Steinbrenner's pockets in New York...
Sources: University of Florida, American Heart Association; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; thomas.loc.gov Washington Post; Name.Space...
...Federal Appeals Court in Atlanta dismisses the Bush case...