[Am-info] Do you think Kottar-Kelley will delay ruling untila Democrat is president?

[Hans Reiser]

John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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>>Most Bush/Reagan appointees are category A judges.  Most of them are
>>toads who instinctively seek to please the powerful.
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>>This is why they hate anti-trust law:
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>>A) it requires great intelligence to understand on a theoretical rather
>>than observational basis.
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>>B) persons who insulate themselves from their hearts also tend to
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>>C) it is inherently to the core a vicious attack on the authority
>>figures that their beta-male herd instincts tell them to defend.
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>Excuse me.  Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was a Reagan appointee.  Remember,
>he's the one who ordered Microsoft split in two.  He's the one whose Findings
>of Fact against Microsoft proved to be air-tight, so much so that the Appeals
>Court upheld every finding.
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Sometimes judges rise to a case if there is enough publicity and they 
sense that it really matters to do it right.  The Amistad case was an 
example of that, in which the  handpicked judge did the right thing that 
he wasn't supposed to do.  Don't get carried away with it though.  

He wanted to do what to Microsoft?  To impose a penalty sufficient that 
they would regret their actions?  No, he did not.  He wanted to break 
them into two companies, which sounds dramatic and hurts the bottom line 
not a lot, especially if Gates continues to own shares in both.

This is not to say that he did a bad job in the case.  I believe that he 
did the very best job he knew how to.  You can fairly point out that the 
DoJ wasn't asking for a lot to be done to hurt MS.

Hans