FC: Supreme Court refuses to hear quick Microsoft appeal

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/09/26/2012225&mode=thread
   Supreme Court Nixes Speedy Microsoft Appeal
   posted by cicero on Tuesday September 26, @03:05PM
   from the so-much-for-"timely"-resolution dept.

   So much for a speedy outcome in the Microsoft case. The Supreme
   Court said in an 8-1 ruling today (PDF) that the Justice
   Department's antitrust suit must proceed through usual channels, which
   means a one-or-two-year detour through the DC appeals court. This is
   an important win for Microsoft, which has enjoyed favorable rulings
   from those appeals court judges before. It's just as impressive a loss
   for the Clinton administration, which inadvisedly promised the world a
   "timely and efficacious" resolution of the case, in the words of lead
   prosecutor Joel Klein at a May 1998 press conference. Klein,
   meanwhile, has bailed from the Justice Department, just as the fight
   is starting to get tough.




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