Milena Sotirova

While Amazon.com is getting ready to launch an apparel site that features dozens of brands through partnerships with retailers including Gap, Eddie Bauer, Foot Locker and Nordstrom, originally U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had ordered that Microsoft be carved into two companies. But after Microsoft appealed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upbraided Jackson for being intolerably biased and removed him from the case, as reported CNN.
For Microsoft this week brought heavy decision. Under a federal law called the Tunney Act, Kollar-Kotelly had to determine whether the antitrust settlement "is in the public interest." She's required to consider whether the deal will thwart any alleged wrongdoing, how it will affect competitors and how long it will remain in force. At the same time nine of the 18 states that filed the lawsuit in 1998 had signed the proposed settlement. Another nine--California, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Utah and West Virginia--continued to pursue the case....[full text]

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