Microsoft Judge Takes His Case to the Public

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post reports: "About 15 months after the Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit rebuked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson for talking to the media in the Microsoft antitrust case, Jackson has formally filed his rebuttal.""

I would have given anything...

[Troy H Parker]

to have had Judge Judy try the case. I'd bust a nut watching her snap out a "SHUSH!" to Bill Gates!

Look at these...

[the_real_tigga]

...to get the picture of what the article is all about:

1 [uscourts.gov]
2 [bbc.co.uk]
3 [harvard.edu]

More Judges Like This One

[doug renfrew]

Jackson, in explaining his order to break up Microsoft, told a reporter a joke about a trainer who slaps a mule with a two-by-four to get its attention. We need more judges like this one...

By the way...

[frozenray]

October 19, 2002 marks the 4th anniversary of the beginning of the United States vs. Microsoft case.

Happy anniversary.

Re: So, the rules are bad?

[Black Parrot]

> But I still did not find the judge's language to be particularly stilted. In fact, omerta makes it almost colorful.

Nah, polychromous.