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Despite protests from Microsoft Corp. that he is biased, Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig will continue as a special master in the U.S. government's anti-trust suit against the software giant, a Microsoft spokesperson said yesterday...
...letter to Lessig filed with the court yesterday, Richard J. Urowsky, counsel to Microsoft, wrote, "It is difficult to see how you can in good conscience preside over further proceedings in this matter." Lessig may find that hard to argue...
Microsoft is still pushing for the removal of Lawrence Lessig after the court-appointed fact-finder in the government's antitrust battle said he would not disqualify himself in the face of emails from Lessig that Microsoft says prove he has shown "extreme bias" against the company. Microsoft first filed for Lessig's dismissal on Dec. 23, alleging its concern "that Professor Lessig may have already formed views about Microsoft and the issues in this case." Justice scoffed, saying Monday that the allegations were "unfounded and overblown." Yesterday, Microsoft released copies of Lessig's E-mail in which he complains...
Assuming the case stays in Judge Jackson's court, the focus now shifts to Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, the "special master" empowered by Jackson to sort through the daunting complexities of federal antitrust law and Microsoft's operating-system strategies--and to report back by May 31. Lessig, 36, an iconoclastic legal scholar who has written about the "tyranny" of computer code, is a Macintosh user...
...official: Windows 98 is in play. Last week Federal Judge THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON ordered Microsoft to stop forcing PC makers to include its Explorer Web browser on Windows 95 machines, at least until Harvard law professor LAWRENCE LESSIG completes a study of the company's business practices as they relate to federal antitrust law. A Lessig conclusion that Microsoft's plan to knit Explorer into the upcoming Windows 98 system violates antitrust statutes could mean the biggest antitrust battle since the Feds broke up Ma Bell in the 1980s. The stakes? Just the future of Windows; which...