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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 04:17 PM EDT
JMOJPBA

In My Opinion, it's Judgement as a Matter Of Judge's Personal Bank Account more
like

Yeah I said it, someone ought to be doing audits on his, his spouses, his kids
out through 3rd cousin twice removed as well as their 250 closest friends, cuz
something is fishy here.

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Do you have any idea...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 11:17 PM EDT
Judgement as a matter of judge's personal opinion. It may be that he simply denies the possibility of anticompetitive behavior ever occuring. The almight market could never allow such a thing, after all. Or maybe he was bribed. Maybe the bribe is the feeling of power he gets when he writes his own laws. Maybe he actually got money from Microsoft. Either way, it is certainly not judgement as a matter of LAW.
Do you have any idea of the number of Microsoft antitrust cases he has presided over?

Do you have any idea how he's come across in them?

Sure, there have been claims that he's been clearly biased -- cle arly biased against Microsoft, that is.

He's made some unusual statement from the bench, I suppose. Most judges probably wouldn't claim Microsoft going after Java was like Tonya Harding crippling Nancy Kerrigan before a skating competition. Is that so bad, though.?

It's true that he didn't want to let people and schools collect $1 billion from Microsoft as part of settlement of a class action antitrust lawsuit. Why? Because it wasn't enough.

Yes, he has been overturned in Microsoft antitrust cases before, but before this case it was because he kept going overboard against Microsoft.

Why is it that all ignored now? How can you say, "It may be that he simply denies the possibility of anticompetitive behavior ever occurring." If so, why has he been going after Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior in so many cases for so many years?

If you want a resource for Judge Motz's cases, dio gratia provided this link to the New York Times coverage of his cases. Not all of them are Microsoft antitrust case, but quite a few of them are. Or just use Google. There is plenty of information available. Some people would rather ignore it because they would rather whine, though.

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If it is overturned again
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 17 2012 @ 12:25 AM EDT
is there a way for an appeal court to initiate an investigation on this judge?
It is one thing if he rules like that (and flied from Maryland to try the case)
just because he believes in a free market. He is free to believe in whatever he
wants. But if the reason for that is that he was bribed, it is a very different
thing,

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