The_RANDy_Corporation
03-14-2001, 01:12 PM
This time while recusing himself from a case due to his overt prejudice against Microsoft, he smears 'em again in the process. Can you say, "Lack of judicial termperament?"
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Mar 14, 2001 - 01:49 PM
Microsoft Antitrust Judge Recuses Self From Discrimination Suit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal judge who ordered Microsoft Corp. to be broken up last year has recused himself from presiding over a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the company. But he took another shot at the software giant.
In an order signed this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said his involvement with the company's monopoly trial helped him to form "unfavorable judgments as to the lawfulness of Microsoft's business practices."
During the trial that resulted in Jackson's breakup order, the judge said, much of Microsoft's testimony was "inaccurate, misleading, evasive, or transparently false."
Jackson wrote that Microsoft has "an institutional disdain for both the truth and for rules of law," and that its executives are "not averse to offering specious testimony to support spurious defenses to claims of its wrongdoing."
He also said he retains the beliefs about Microsoft and its executives that were quoted in several newspaper articles and books about the trial. In those, Jackson compared Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to Napoleon and compared the company to a drug-dealing street gang.
In February, his comments were lambasted by an appellate court hearing of Microsoft's appeal of the antitrust case.
Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan applauded the recusal decision, but declined to comment further.
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Full story: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA9KYVEBKC.html
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Mar 14, 2001 - 01:49 PM
Microsoft Antitrust Judge Recuses Self From Discrimination Suit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal judge who ordered Microsoft Corp. to be broken up last year has recused himself from presiding over a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against the company. But he took another shot at the software giant.
In an order signed this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said his involvement with the company's monopoly trial helped him to form "unfavorable judgments as to the lawfulness of Microsoft's business practices."
During the trial that resulted in Jackson's breakup order, the judge said, much of Microsoft's testimony was "inaccurate, misleading, evasive, or transparently false."
Jackson wrote that Microsoft has "an institutional disdain for both the truth and for rules of law," and that its executives are "not averse to offering specious testimony to support spurious defenses to claims of its wrongdoing."
He also said he retains the beliefs about Microsoft and its executives that were quoted in several newspaper articles and books about the trial. In those, Jackson compared Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to Napoleon and compared the company to a drug-dealing street gang.
In February, his comments were lambasted by an appellate court hearing of Microsoft's appeal of the antitrust case.
Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan applauded the recusal decision, but declined to comment further.
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Full story: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA9KYVEBKC.html