Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judge, Thomas P. Jackson, announced his ruling Wednesday at the end of a two-day hearing related to other matters in the antitrust case, which alleges that Microsoft illegally tried to gain market share in the Internet browser wars...
...Jackson had appointed Lessig as a special master to sift through the "extensive highly technical evidence" in the case on Dec. 11. Microsoft countered with a petition for his removal in a brief filed on Dec.23...
...Jackson said that Microsoft's allegations that Lessig was biased against the company were "trivial" and said that the company might have "incurred sanctions" had the accusations been made in open court...
...Jackson responded that Lessig was not judging the case but merely analyzing evidence and making recommendations...
...What upset the judge so? It could well have been Microsoft's claim that Lessig had compared them to the devil in an E-mail to a friend at rival Netscape ? a claim that Jackson denounced on the grounds that the E-mail was clearly written in jest. In any case, the very mention of sanctions does not bode well for the outcome of the contempt hearing, when the Justice Department is asking for a $1 million-a-day fine to be slapped on the Redmond corporation. Indeed, Microsoft may have mounted a vigorous technical defense Wednesday of why Windows...