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When he was appointed "special master" last December in the Justice Department's closely watched antitrust suit against Microsoft, Lawrence Lessig expected that by spring he'd be the most important person in the court--the expert telling Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson how to sort through the legal and technological issues underlying the complex case. Instead, he's the one being judged. A federal appeals court will decide this week whether he is, as Microsoft claims, too deeply biased against it to make an impartial recommendation...
...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 to disable...
WASHINGTON: Microsoft has stepped back from the brink. That's the news from Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom where just a week ago the software firm was vigorously defending the entwining of Internet Explorer with Windows 95. Now it has pledged to separate the two, avoiding the risk of a $1 million-a-day fine...
...homework, now it's just a question of waiting for the grades ? and one of them is definitely going to flunk. Yes, despite the holiday, Microsoft and the Justice Department were working up to the last minute Monday on the "ten pages or less" summaries mandated by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is seeking some simple perspectives in what has become an increasingly complex contempt hearing...
WASHINGTON: The relationship between Microsoft and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has been stormy at the best of times. But it took another turn for the worse Wednesday night when Jackson fired off a scathing written response to the software giant's claim that the court-appointed "special master," Lawrence Lessig, was biased. "The bases given for those accusations are both trivial and altogether nonprobitive," Jackson wrote. "They are, therefore, defamatory and the court finds that they were not made in good faith. Had they been made in a more formal manner, they might well have incurred sanctions...