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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23214)4/9/1999 7:26:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
Forbes - April 19,1999

Microsoft's suffering in antitrust court is not all in vain. It will educate a generation of trial lawyers.

Object lesson

By Daniel Lyons

forbes.com

"This is a disaster," says Alan Dershowitz, professor at Harvard Law School. "Lawyers watching this case are aghast. This case will be taught at law schools for years to come as an example of how not to conduct a trial."

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If Microsoft loses, companies will crawl out of the woodwork to sue over its business practices. Much of the heavy lifting already has been done. "From Paris to Jakarta to Tokyo, every class action lawyer in the world is watching this case with bated breath," Dershowitz says. Intel Corp., Microsoft's cool-tempered ally, recently settled its own antitrust case with the FTC. It suffered nary a scratch. Microsoft apparently hopes to do the same. Two words for that: fat chance.
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