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Article: Appeals Court Unlikely to Save Microsoft, Says Judge Bork.
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- April 4, 2000
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WASHINGTON, April 4 /PRNewswire/ --
At a press conference today, former U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert H. Bork said the appeals process is unlikely to overturn the District Court's finding that Microsoft is a predatory monopolist. "The prospects that Microsoft can reverse this decision are slim," he said.
Judge Bork, who once remarked that Microsoft has used tactics "that would make a robber baron blush," described the Microsoft case as "highly politicized." He told the reporters that "Bill Gates is trying to win this in the political and PR arena rather than in the legal arena." Judge Bork said that as a legal matter, the Appeals Court ...