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Article: Appeals court overturns Microsoft breakup.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- June 28, 2001
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WASHINGTON, Jun 28, 2001
A federal appeals court overturned the breakup of Microsoft Corp. Thursday, throwing out a federal judge's earlier ruling in the government's antitrust suit that would have split the software giant in two.
In an opinion highly critical of U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the appeals court sent the case back down to be reheard by a different judge.
At the same time, the appeals court made it very tough for any new judge to break up the company, saying the government would have to prove a direct causal relationship between the company's anticompetitive conduct and its dominance of the marketplace -- ...