Comment Re:Thankyou Slashdot (Score 2) 247
The experts were partly picked by Slashdot and partly self-selected, and I don't know exactly how the final decisions were made. I have the least legal background of the panelists, but I know enough to say that there was quite a bit of serious antitrust law expertise represented on the panel, and there was great diversity of opinion within the panel outside of the most basic issues.
It is also important to point out that many of the other viewpoints expressed elsewhere are knee-jerk reactions from people who haven't even read the FoF, who are not very familiar with the relevant antitrust law, or who have a clear vested interest in one side or the other. If you find highly divergent opinions that pass these tests, I want to hear them!
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I was only actually in the courtroom one day, but I can vouch for Judge Jackson being quite alert the whole time I was there despite long, boring delays in which nothing was happening while various administrivia were performed. Picture this going on for many weeks Monday through Thursday. I'd be QUITE surprised if the Judge missed anything important due to napping -- and remember that those many weeks were just the rebuttals and closing arguments; you also have to count in the many pretrial hearings, the depositions themselves (some of which are still sealed), and the many meetings in chambers to which the public is not privy. -- DCN
It is also important to point out that many of the other viewpoints expressed elsewhere are knee-jerk reactions from people who haven't even read the FoF, who are not very familiar with the relevant antitrust law, or who have a clear vested interest in one side or the other. If you find highly divergent opinions that pass these tests, I want to hear them!
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I was only actually in the courtroom one day, but I can vouch for Judge Jackson being quite alert the whole time I was there despite long, boring delays in which nothing was happening while various administrivia were performed. Picture this going on for many weeks Monday through Thursday. I'd be QUITE surprised if the Judge missed anything important due to napping -- and remember that those many weeks were just the rebuttals and closing arguments; you also have to count in the many pretrial hearings, the depositions themselves (some of which are still sealed), and the many meetings in chambers to which the public is not privy. -- DCN
