IP: Larry Lessig gets to file amicus brief; Jackson overrules MS

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:10:04 -0500
>To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>Jackson's somewhat pointed order:
>   http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/98-1232q.pdf
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>By John R. Wilke
>Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
>The Wall Street Journal
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>WASHINGTON -- U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rejected
>Microsoft Corp.'s objections to Lawrence Lessig's renewed participation
>in the company's antitrust trial, saying he finds no convincing evidence
>the Harvard University Internet expert is biased against Microsoft.
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>Microsoft had said in an earlier court filing that Mr. Lessig, whose views
>on the case had been solicited by Judge Jackson, "may not be an impartial
>friend of the court with regard to legal issues in the case."
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>In its filing -- the second time in the case that Microsoft had objected to
>Mr. Lessig -- the company excerpted a brief radio interview in which Mr.
>Lessig is quoted as saying Microsoft's control of the "architecture of
>cyberspace" is a "threat to innovation." It had also complained that he
>was associated with an advisory group connected to Red Hat Software
>Inc., which promotes Linux, computer operating-system software that
>competes with Microsoft's dominant Windows software in some markets.
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