[Am-info] Microsoft judge steps carefully

[Erick Andrews]

Here's a piece in this morning Boston Globe about
Judge Kollar-Kotelly.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/140/business/Microsoft_judge_steps_carefully+.shtml

"[A]nalysis WASHINGTON - Nine months after Judge Colleen 
Kollar-Kotelly took over the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case, from 
a discredited judge, she is running the case in her own fashion, 
taking pains to show her independence even while struggling a 
bit to master the jargon of the computer industry. 

"Kollar-Kotelly, 59, has been a careful, discreet, and respectful 
presence on the bench, though she has asserted herself more in 
the past week as she prepares for a much-awaited ruling on the 
remedies for Microsoft's violation of the law.

"In public, the US District Court judge has not uttered a word 
of criticism of her predecessor on the case, Thomas Penfield 
Jackson, who was ousted from the proceedings by a federal 
appeals court last year for ''egregious and flagrant'' unethical 
conduct.

"Jackson's name still comes up often in the trial over which Kollar-
Kotelly presides, but never in a critical or disparaging way; the 
references are to the first trial at which he sat.  That led to the 
conclusion that Microsoft had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act."

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-- 
Erick Andrews