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Part of the struggle is a fight over information-the Government asking for vast amounts, the company often resisting. "It can be a huge job," says Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General and now the IBM vice president in charge of the legal defense. "Sometimes plaintiffs ask for something we don't have-we'd have to ask every salesman in every branch office-because it's not the sort of information that the company needs to run itself. Or sometimes they ask for a file from the early '60s, and those files are crated...
...other side, one top-ranking federal trustbuster, not mentioning IBM by name, publicly complained about being "drowned in a sea of paper." Katzenbach recently protested to a congressional committee that IBM has not stalled the trial except for "a day off occasionally for firm picnics." But a number of complications have been caused by IBM tactics. The company chewed up time authenticating documents from its own files, and it unsuccessfully argued "privilege" to the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent U.S. use of documents obtained by another antitrust litigator. On the other hand, the Government once so mishandled IBM documents that...
...what "market" is involved. Raymond Carlson, 52, the Justice Department's chief lawyer for the case, contends that IBM controls a dominant 70% of the market for general-purpose computers and related equipment. IBM lawyers, led by Manhattan Attorney Thomas Barr, 44, and former Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, reply that the true market in which the company competes is the much broader one for all kinds of electronic data-processing equipment, and that in any case a 70% share has not constituted a monopoly in previous cases...
...could forbid dirty tricks by the FBI, why did not earlier Attorneys General order Hoover to halt COINTELPRO? In his statement, Kelley maintained that the Attorneys General from William P. Rogers in 1958 to Robert Kennedy in 1961 to John Mitchell in 1969 knew about COINTELPRO. In response, Nicholas Katzenbach, who held the office in 1965, said that he had never heard the term COINTELPRO. While he knew of some legal bureau activities involving the Klan, said Katzenbach, he was unaware of any disruptive campaign against groups such as CORE or the S.C.L.C. Ramsey Clark, Lyndon Johnson's last...
Vorenberg, a former student of Cox, served as special assistant to the attorney general in 1964-1965 under Robert F. Kennedy '48, Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark. He also served two years as director of the President's Crime Commission...