Word: casefuls
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...District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson delivered a blow to the Microsoft Corporation in the form of a 207-page finding of fact. Jackson concluded that since the early '90s, Microsoft has stifled innovation, reduced competition and hurt consumers. Although not a final verdict in the nearly year-long antitrust case filed by the U.S. government--that will be delivered within a few weeks unless the parties negotiate a settlement--the findings clearly side with the government by declaring Microsoft a monopoly in the operating systems market and rebuking all of Microsoft's claims to the contrary...
...Microsoft trial was an exemplary case of efficiency. Thanks to Jackson's command of his courtroom, the Microsoft case was argued in just under a year. By comparison, arguments for some trials of similar scope have taken well over a decade...
Jackson's unprecedented and welcome decision to issue his findings of fact before the final verdict may shorten the trial and avoid the unnecessary expenditure of taxpayer dollars on a lengthy appeals process. Because both parties in the case know where they stand before the verdict has been issued, they are able to make an informed decision about whether and on what terms to settle the case...
...parties can settle, they will not only avoid the costly and arduous process of appeals but may also avert the possibility of a new, and possibly ideologically different, administration assuming control of the government's side of the case should it continue past the 2000 presidential election. Microsoft's political lobbying efforts have intensified over the past year, and it would be disappointing to see the judicial process interrupted by politics...
Officials at Wisconsin's flagship university have urged the high court to rely on a ruling involving the University of Virginia four years ago. In that case, the justices said the school breached the First Amendment by refusing to provide funds for a student Christian magazine even though it subsidized nonreligious student publications. The court ruled that when a university sets up a general policy for disbursing student activity funds, that fund becomes the equivalent of a public forum, and the university must subsidize secular and religious publications on the same basis...