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Justice Department Confident of Victory in Microsoft Case.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2000 by Wilson, David L.
Mar. 7--WASHINGTON--Government lawyers, emboldened by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's earlier decisions, are counting on him to soon declare that Microsoft Corp. has deliberately and systematically violated antitrust laws. But despite their private talk of impending victory, the Justice Department and 19 state attorneys general who are plaintiffs in this historic case remain unsure of the precise penalties they will ask Jackson to impose on the company.
Sources close to the government's case say they hope Jackson will find that Microsoft's behavior was both outrageous and pervasive enough to justify a request for a "substantial" remedy, such as a breakup of the company. They insist, however, that the government has not decided whether or not to ask Jackson to...
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