Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adultery is still illegal in the District of Columbia. Have sexual relations with a woman not your wife, the lawbooks say, and you're looking at 180 days in jail and a $500 fine. And until 1995, sodomy, including oral sex, was illegal in D.C. But whatever kind of sex President Clinton did or did not have with Monica Lewinsky, his legal problems don't lie with the morals section of D.C. local law. It's a cluster of federal statutes, lumped under the rubric "obstruction of justice," that could spell trouble. As a former law professor, Clinton would have...
...issue was whether forcing PC vendors that license Microsoft's Windows95 to take Explorer as well constitutes product "tying"--a violation of the consent decree signed by Microsoft in 1995. After Joel Klein, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, reopened Justice's dormant suit against Microsoft, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a preliminary injunction forbidding Microsoft to engage in Explorer strong-arming. This in turn produced Microsoft's infamously petulant response: offering to sell versions of Windows that didn't have Explorer but didn't work either. After showing in court that it took less than 90 seconds...
...reported in The Globe, the appellate court found that "the evidence of past infringement is very strong. The district court itself remarked that the evidence of Dr. Johnson-Powell's past infringement was `so strong as to be perhaps undeniable...
...appellate court, according to The Globe, went on to say that "[t]he district court also thought her affidavit was `probably not true,' apparently in respect to the claimed inadvertence of the error on the resume.' It can also be inferred fromthe record that Dr. Johnson-Powell violated pastpromises to reform her conduct...
...trial conference will be held on March 9in the U.S. District Court in Boston...