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Public blasts Microsoft antitrust settlement
News The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday filed a legal brief summarising public comments received on an antitrust settlement cut in November. The legal brief emphasised that "the parties believe that the Court should not conduct an...
[February 8, 2002, 8:45]
US Report: Microsoft quotes Netscape to attack antitrust lawsuit
News In a detailed 48-page legal brief, Microsoft urged Federal District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson "based on the facts and the recent appeals court decision, we believe the case should be dismissed now, without a long and costly trial", said...
[September 9, 1998, 10:58]
Antitrust: Microsoft makes case for delay
News In a sharply worded, nine-page legal brief, Microsoft rebutted the government's argument that proceedings should begin at a lower court. As this Court observed, the extraordinary pattern of misconduct engaged in by the district judge--which began...
[August 15, 2001, 9:34]
Librarians issue file-sharing support
News The five major US library associations are planning to file a legal brief on Friday siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios.
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
US Justice Dept defends $1.92m file-sharing fine
News In a legal brief filed on Friday, the US Department of Justice said the $1.92m (£1.17m) fine that the Recording Industry Association of America imposed on Thomas was perfectly constitutional. Their brief adds: "Congress took into account the need...
[August 17, 2009, 15:45]
Google keeps up porn probe battle
News In a strongly worded legal brief filed with a federal judge in San Jose, California, the search company accused prosecutors of a "cavalier attitude", saying they were "uninformed" about how search engines work and the importance of protecting...
[February 20, 2006, 8:05]
Microsoft fires back at AOL
News Microsoft's antitrust woes are generating enough legal briefs to level several Northwestern forests. Late on Wednesday, the software maker filed a brief with the U.S. AOL's proposal bears a striking resemblance to the requested relief that the non...
[January 25, 2002, 6:31]
Email is key to file-swap fight
News The trade associations' 67-page legal brief provides the first details of exactly what the latest file-swapping legal wars will be fought over. The uncontroverted facts all point to the inescapable conclusion: defendants' systems were designed and...
[September 13, 2002, 11:02]
Starr sets his sights on Microsoft
News CNET News.com's Joe Wilcox spoke briefly with Starr about his involvement in the case, which ProComp President Mike Pettit said would extend beyond last week's legal brief. High-tech trade group, Project to Promote Competition & Innovation in the...
[January 15, 2001, 13:32]
Patent reform case falls
News In a legal brief urging the justices to take up the case, the companies say they hold more than 1,400 patents and want to promote a patent system with a reasonable "balance" among inventors, users and follow-on improvers.
[January 20, 2005, 9:30]
RIAA site defaced again
News In a legal brief filed last Friday, Verizon said what the RIAA wanted was not sufficiently privacy protective and could lead to "widespread abuse" in the court system. For the third time in five weeks, the Recording Industry Association of America...
[September 4, 2002, 7:50]
Yahoo!, ISPs dig in against labels
News What we hope to accomplish is to force the RIAA to follow established legal procedures and due process," said David McClure, president of the US Internet Industry Association, which organised the brief.
[September 11, 2002, 8:30]
MS to antitrust judge: Give us more time
News In requesting an extension of the current schedule, Microsoft cannot be accused of seeking to delay the imposition of a remedy in this case because Microsoft began complying with the RPFJ (revised proposed final judgment)," the legal brief states.
[December 24, 2001, 9:27]
Microsoft tries to block speedy appeal
News The government in its legal brief last week said that, at this juncture, it would not seek Supreme Court review of the case. Still, Microsoft's legal brief indicates the software giant is weighing its next move carefully and not ruling out an...
[July 23, 2001, 10:53]
UPDATE: Microsoft to be sued for racial bias
News Microsoft filed its main legal brief in November. Wednesday's legal action adds to the mounting legal actions against Microsoft. In November, US district judge Janet C Hall tacked $3.7m in legal fees onto $1m in punitive damages against Microsoft...
[January 3, 2001, 9:45]
Microsoft dismisses states' settlement plan
News In the 20-page brief, Microsoft urges US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to reject the states' proposed remedy and to accept the settlement cut with state and federal trustbusters in November. In many respects, the non-settling States...
[December 13, 2001, 9:00]
MS: DoJ is trying to rewrite the law ?
News In his brief, Lessig addresses the tying claim, arguing that depending on the legal test used, IE and Windows can be considered either separate products or an integrated one under antitrust law. In its filing, Microsoft attorneys cautioned Judge...
[February 2, 2000, 9:17]
Intel, FTC prepare to square off
News The company -- now a subsidiary of Compaq -- settled with Intel in December in 1997, selling off its semiconductor operations to Intel after a seven-month legal battle. For the FTC, a major step along that path will be to show that Intel's...
[March 8, 1999, 11:35]
25 more states join fight against Microsoft
News In three separate legal briefs filed Friday, a total of 34 states opposed a Microsoft motion that a federal judge should dismiss the remaining portion of its antitrust case. New York filed a separate brief.
[March 18, 2002, 9:32]
MS-DoJ: Back in the ring
News Once Microsoft files its brief, the DoJ has until 12 January to respond. In its opening brief, Microsoft will argue that it didn't break the law and should not be broken up. It's extremely difficult to get such findings overturned because appeals...
[November 27, 2000, 7:32]
