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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. 
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980819S0012
                   
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