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Article: Justice Department urges swift action by Supreme Court
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- August 16, 2000
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court
on Tuesday to decide quickly whether the giant Microsoft should be
broken into two computer software companies. It said delay "could
irreparably harm competition in a vital and rapidly evolving sector
of the national economy,"
In a brief filed with the high court, the government opposed
Microsoft's request that its appeal of a trial judge's breakup order
go first to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia before reaching the Supreme Court.
The court should agree to skip the intermediate panel for only the
third time since 1974 because this case "has immense importance to
our national economy," the ...