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BILL GATES High court rejects fast track for breakup. He might stay nerd in chief of a united Microsoft...
...decision sends the Microsoft case to the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia circuit and into what will likely be a more Microsoft-friendly courtroom. Two of the seven judges who will hear the appeal, Stephen F. Williams and A. Raymond Randolph, ruled in favor of Microsoft in a related appeal two years ago. Moreover, by removing the immediate threat of a final ruling, the decision gives Microsoft a stronger bargaining position in any settlement negotiations with the government. The decision, however, does not offer similar benefits to the Justice Department or to the American people. An extended...
...Microsoft's most recent tactical maneuvering also gives strong reason to doubt its interest in an expeditious appeals process. The company's proposed timetable for the appeal includes a more than five-month window in which to file documents and a provision for allowing briefs to be more than four times the normal length. Microsoft claims that such provision are warranted by the complexity and monumental nature of the case at hand. Its argument, however, is ill-founded. While complexity and historical import demand a thorough and unbiased weighing of the facts and a fair adjudication the parties conflicting claims...
Most troubling is that in light of the Court's ruling, the handling of the Microsoft case will inevitably have to be passed on to a new administration--a fact that may jeopardize the progress made in the case thus far. Under new leadership, the Justice Department could potentially sacrifice the government's strategic bargaining advantage in the name of a swifter, if more lenient, settlement with Microsoft, or even go so far as to drop out of the case entirely. Although the states that are parties to the suit would likely continue to fight, such actions would greatly reduce...
...Microsoft case is one involving a fast-moving market and a critical sector of the economy. If any case deserved expedited review by the high court, this case should qualify. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court rejected the reasoning of Justice Stephen Breyer and decided otherwise. It is now in the interest of both justice and the nation's economic well-being that a final ruling be issued in the Microsoft case as soon as possible, and also that such a ruling take substantial measures to curb Microsoft's abuse of its disproportionate market power. Anything less would make a travesty...