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To: Jim Lamb who wrote (46700)	6/15/2000 12:54:00 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 74651

Should the appeals court reject the government's request rejecting the stay motion, "the alternative is to defer consideration itself until the court resolves whether it has jurisdiction," a source close to the government said. "What we suggest to the court of appeals is it should just wait and see what Judge Jackson does on the jurisdictional issue." According to the government's brief, "It makes little sense for the Court to rush into briefing of Microsoft's likelihood of prevailing on appeal before ascertaining whether it will have jurisdiction over the case. The district court is likely to rule on the government's motion to certify under the Expediting Act in a matter of days." This is extremely disingenuous. The Circuit court, I believe has jurisdiction the second the appeal is filed. I assume the quote in the first paragraph was a comment and not a quote from the brief. At best the DOJ might be considered as attempting to deny MS procedural due process. The DOJ argument that all they want is to straighten things out right away is disingenuous. If they really wanted to help they would join in the stay motion, until the final outcome of the case.