Word: sporkin
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...acquisition, calling it "pro-competitive" and "pro-consumer". According to Philip Elmer-Dewitt, TIME's Science Editor, the Justice action stems from the anti-trust issues which surrounded Microsoft last summer at the release of Windows 95. "The vigilance now is all fallout from last summer when Judge Sporkin called the Microsoft settlement into question and embarrased the Justice Department. Now, the Justice Department wants everyone to know that they are looking at every little thing that Microsoft does...
...court of appeals reversed a lower court's rejection of Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the Justice Department. District Judge Stanley Sporkin perceived Microsoft as ruthless and rejected the settlement as insufficiently punitive; the circuit court disqualified him from further presiding over the case and recommended that the next judge on the case approve the agreement...
Microsoft Corp. won a major legal victory today when a federal appeals court reinstated a favorable 1994 Justice Department settlement of an antitrust case against the firm. The settlement had been rejected in February by federal judge Stanley Sporkin. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also rebuked Sporkin for exceeding his authority. Sporkin's controversial ruling broadly condemned Microsoft's tactics as "monopolistic" and drew Justice Department fire as "an invitation to anarchy in the enforcement of antitrust law." Now, Microsoft is back where it was a year ago: "They dodged the bullet," saysTIME...
...After Sporkin's ruling, things seemed to turn sour for Microsoft. In late April the Justice Department's antitrust division sued to prevent the company from consummating the merger with Intuit, a deal that would have been the biggest acquisition in software history. Microsoft was scheduled to fight the suit in court on June 26, but two weeks ago, the company announced that it was dropping the merger, perhaps hoping it would get the government off its back. It may be too late for that. Bingaman says her department has become a kind of "Microsoft complaint center," and her staff...
TIME: I guess in Judge [Stanley] Sporkin's mind it does. He's saying vaporware is an issue...