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Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-one-way-to-get-at-this-story dept.

DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."

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  1. Re:Nice flaming headline. by saintp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uh, how is that a flame? It's a fact. Bush's latest nominee used to be a lawyer for Microsoft. Whoopty-doo. How would you prefer they put it? "Bush court nominee hugs fuzzy bunnies, gives flags to orphans"?

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  2. Re:Wrong process anyway by deanj · · Score: 4, Funny

    They shoot the judges that used to be there, and install new judges.

  3. Re:Nice flaming headline. by stupidfoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Bush bans oil! All cars must run on skittles and drive on rainbows"

  4. Re:Wrong process anyway by AvitarX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Having the president appoint supreme court judges is wrong anyway. There should be a better process of selecting them. How's it done in other countries?


    In soviet Russia supreme court selects you.

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  5. Re:Wrong process anyway by leroybrown · · Score: 5, Funny

    wouldn't it be, "In Soviet Russia, Supreme Court selects president"? oh, wait...

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