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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 18 3:59 PM EST

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To: t2 who wrote (19097)	3/28/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) of 74651

I do not think that Jackson would deliver a verdict without considering how appeals court would deal with it. Whatever his decision is, he'd write it (or, rather, he'd have his staff write it) very carefully, knowing that it would be reviewed closely by the appeals court. But Jackson would also know that either a pro- or anti-MS decision might be overturned. There are judges on the Circuit Court who are inclined to vote against anti-trust judgments. There are also judges inclined to vote for them. He has no way to know which ones will be looking at his decision, so all he can do is be careful to follow the law and the evidence. Neither one of those seem to favor Microsoft at this point. Jackson is a Reagan appointee who's probably harder to convince in an antitrust case than another judge might be, but once he's convinced his ego will tell him that he must make the decision. That's his job. He'll let the appeals court do theirs.

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