Thomas Penfield Jackson, Outspoken Judge, Dies at 76 (Microsoft antitrust case judge)
Source: New york times
Thomas Penfield Jackson, a federal judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly and must be split in half, only to see an appeals court reverse his order because he had improperly discussed it with journalists, died at his home in Compton, Md., on Saturday. He was 76.
The cause was complications of transitional cell cancer, according to his wife, Patricia King Jackson.
The career of Judge Jackson, who served in the District of Columbia, was studded with big moments. In 1988, he fined a former Reagan aide, Michael K. Deaver, $100,000 for lying under oath about his lobbying activities. In 1990 he conducted the trial that convicted former Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. of Washington of cocaine possession. In 1994, he ordered Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon to give the Senate Ethics Committee his personal diary, which contained details of his sexually harassing his staff and others, resulting in his resignation.
But the burly, silver-haired judge — known for chewing on ice cubes, gruff candor and a rich baritone — attracted the most attention presiding over the trial of the Microsoft Corporation on charges of antitrust violations in 1998-99 — one of history’s largest antitrust cases.
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