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...actions by Microsoft were designed to stifle possible innovations in the computer industry. As the district court found and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld, the company feared that “middleware” such as Netscape’s browser and Sun’s Java would allow greater freedom to choose alternative operating systems with the same functionality. Microsoft’s decisions to prevent consumers from removing Internet Explorer, to require distributors to give Explorer prominent placement on the desktop, and to subvert the Java standard by building its own proprietary version were intended...
Last week's decision is the latest turn in a lawsuit that has been 3 1/2 years of bad road for Microsoft. The ruling was the best Microsoft has seen in the case, but it fell far short of a full-throttle victory. The appeals court unanimously upheld Judge Jackson's finding that Microsoft is a monopoly "in its entirety." And it set out a laundry list of actions--from bullying computer makers into bundling its Internet browser to deceiving developers of the rival Java programming language--that broke federal antitrust...
...fungus busters, mold lawyers and support groups is growing. On June 4 a jury found that Farmers Insurance should pay Melinda Ballard of Dripping Springs, Texas, $32 million for mold damage to her 22-room, hilltop mansion and for her ensuing mental anguish. In May the Delaware Supreme Court upheld a $1 million jury award to Elizabeth Stroot of Wilmington, Del., who claimed that moldy water leaking into the bathroom of her apartment aggravated her asthma and caused cognitive disorders...
...unanimous decision, the Supreme Court upheld the federal government?s challenge of six California distributors who provided medical marijuana to patients with various illnesses including cancer, multiple sclerosis and AIDS. Many advocates and patients claim smoking pot alleviates the worst of symptoms ranging from nausea to muscle tremor...
...buried beneath a much larger, pro-environment headline. "The President isn't out there trying to make the Sierra Club happy, he's trying to appeal to the average American who watches the news," says Carney. "And what the average American is going to hear is that Bush has upheld Clinton's rules protecting forests - not that the conditions of the agreement could make the rules much weaker...