Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...electronic-checkbook program, a deal that would have helped realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace. Another team of government lawyers is snooping around asking questions about Microsoft Network, the new online service he plans to launch in August. And an antitrust suit that has been hanging over his head for nearly five years -- and which he thought he had settled last summer -- is in legal limbo, held hostage by an ornery federal judge...
After Sporkin's ruling, things seemed to turn sour for Microsoft. In late April the Justice Department's antitrust division sued to prevent the company from consummating the merger with Intuit, a deal that would have been the biggest acquisition in software history. Microsoft was scheduled to fight the suit in court on June 26, but two weeks ago, the company announced that it was dropping the merger, perhaps hoping it would get the government off its back. It may be too late for that. Bingaman says her department has become a kind of "Microsoft complaint center," and her staff...
...such a thing would not be out of character. In a complaint filed in April as part of the Intuit suit, the Justice Department quoted a memo, directed to Gates, in which a Microsoft vice president told how he had tried to pressure Intuit chairman Scott Cook into accepting a $1 billion buyout offer by hinting that Microsoft might spend the money attacking Intuit in the marketplace. "I tried to tell him how much we could do with $1 billion," the V.P. wrote. "I tried to be nonthreatening, but let him know we would do something aggressively...
...interior of Satian No. 6 (satian is Sanskrit for "supreme truth"), a warehouse in an Aum compound near Mount Fuji. Then an investigator tapped on a wall and found a hollow spot. Police cut in with an electric saw and discovered a bearded man in a deep pink pajama suit lying in a compartment about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. high. With him were a cassette player, some medicine and a bag containing $106,000 in cash. Followers had apparently sealed Asahara into the hiding place a day or so earlier when it became clear his arrest was imminent...
...didn't seem to enjoy himself much last time, but Mark Fuhrman wants another day in court. The Los Angeles police detective has filed a $50 million libel suit against the New Yorker and writer Jeffrey Toobin for a July 1994 article he says exposed him to "hatred, contempt and ridicule." The article explored his psychological records and quoted O.J. Simpson's lawyers calling him a "rogue...