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Date: 1998-08-21

Bills auf der Gewinner/strasse


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q/depesche 98.8.21/1
updating 98.8.18/1

Bills auf der Gewinner/strasse
Hie stehen Medien, die ein öffentliches Verfahren gegen
Micro/soft verlangen, all/dort steht Bill, der zur
Abwechslung keinen "Medienzirkus" will. Er hat gewonnen, wie
ein anderer Bill, der gerade eben den Fall Lewinsky von den
Frontpages der U.S. Medien geschossen hat.

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Appeals Court Closes Microsoft Depositions (08/19/98; 6:43
p.m. ET) By Darryl K. Taft, Computer Reseller News

A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled the depositions of
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and several other of the
software company's executives will be closed to the press
and the public.

The three-judge panel ruled in favor of Microsoft in the
battle to keep the pretrial depositions private, after
attorneys representing news organizations cited an obscure
law -- the Publicity in Taking Evidence Act -- that would
let observers witness the depositions.

Wednesday's ruling reverses last week's decision by U.S.
District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who ruled in favor
of the news organizations, saying the depositions should be
open to the press and the public, in accordance to the 1913
statute.

However, Microsoft (company profile) immediately appealed
Jackson's ruling, saying that opening the pretrial testimony
to the public would create a "circus" atmosphere.
...
full story
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980819S0012
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