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...THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON Appeals court pans his Microsoft ruling and chats with the media. Gates may yet get last laugh...
...target of those judicial projectiles was Thomas Penfield Jackson, the judge who presided over the Microsoft trial. The reason for the appellate court's displeasure: Jackson's intemperate comments to the press while the case was pending--notably, comparing Microsoft at various points to a French emperor and a D.C. drug gang. Or as Chief Judge Harry Edwards acerbically put it, Jackson's propensity to "run off [his] mouth." The legal system, Edwards said, "would be a sham if all judges went around doing this...
Auletta comes by his insights the old-fashioned way: he wore out a lot of shoe leather. He had significant access to all the key players in the story. His interviews with Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the federal district court judge who heard the case, yield a motherlode of provocative, if sometimes injudicious, reflections. Recalling, for example, a photo he came across of Gates from the early days of Microsoft, Jackson told Auletta that what he saw was "a smart-mouthed young kid" who "need[ed] a little discipline...
...Matter of Antitrust JUDGE THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON...
...first stood out for his voice. As a boy, Thomas Penfield Jackson won a choir scholarship to St. Albans prep school that he lost when his voice changed. But he became a lawyer, then a judge, distinguished by his booming baritone. He had tried high-profile cases (like Washington Mayor Marion Barry's) but was little known until he became Bill Gates' bete noire. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial could be gruff ("You are not planning to totally rearrange my room, are you?" he asked our photographer) but was known as open-minded and moderate. His thunderbolt rulings...