Antitrust case's big loser: The judge
C|Net | at | by Mike
As both sides declared victory after Thursday's appellate court ruling, one clear loser emerged in the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit removed Jackson from the case, nullifying his order last year to break up the software giant. The move could pave the way for renewed settlement negotiations. Aside from any immediate impact on the case, however, the court's statements were an unusually harsh rebuke of a sitting federal judge.
In 20 pages saved for the end of their opinion Thursday, the appellate judges took Jackson to task for comments made outside the courtroom in a rare show of dispute within the ranks of a painstakingly restrained federal judiciary in Washington
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