I have not read the opinion referred to below -- those that have say
problems found by the court were narrow and related primarily to the
star-pagination license.
The judge did not reject the merger, nor could he have, since the
merger was consummated a long time ago without objection by DOJ.
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 16:16:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sugarman <sugarman@hyperlaw.com>
Sender: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Federal Judges rejects DOJ-West/Thomson Deal
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu, cni-copyright@cni.org
Apparently this afternoon Judge Friedman, USDJ District of Columbia
issued a 52 page opinion rejecting the consent decree negotiated
between the United States Department of Justice, West and Thomson
Publishing.
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