Microsoft Loses Bid to Dump Special Master

Staff -- Library Journal, 1/19/1998

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has refused Microsoft's request to remove Lawrence Lessig, an expert on Internet law from Harvard University. Microsoft had charged that Lessig was biased against the company, but Jackson's written remarks called those charges "defamatory." A Microsoft spokesman said the company was disappointed, but "will continue to work with Prof. Lessig as we have." In further developments, a Microsoft witness said the company's response to a December court order to remove all Internet Explorer files from its Windows^® operating software, thereby disabling the program, was devised by a small group of lawyers and software developers, along with Chairman Bill Gates.