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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (32672)	11/7/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

The judge decided that at least some consumers were harmed, based on the evidence presented at trial. That is to say, it's his interpretation of the facts. Whether or not he can be overturned on the basis of his earlier record of two reversals is not an apt comparison. The reason is that earlier he was overturned on the LAW, not the FACTS, and he was overturned not on an issue at trial but on a motion filed before trial. If this case ever gets to a point where the judge issues his conclusions on how the law should treat the facts, then, and only THEN can MSFT have a chance to appeal on a point of law. This is essentially what the papers I've read are saying, based on opinions of legal experts (which I'm not). But I'm not entirely ignorant of how these cases proceed, inasmuch as litigation is a factor that can have a substantial impact on where the stock price is going, and that's my primary interest.