After five years of litigation, appeals and a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, jury selection is scheduled to begin tomorrow in a Michigan federal court for a trial that pits the owners of a small Michigan-based design company against fast-food giant Taco Bell.
Throughout the litigation, Chase appealed its courtroom losses unsuccessfully, prolonging the legal battle.
This litigation, when appealed, may also meet a panel of only eight Supreme Court Justices demonstrating the importance of the nomination process again.
A ruling by Judge Rhodes that insulated the Chapter 9 case from litigation could also be appealed.
Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the likely Republican candidate, said that as president he would "fully enforce antitrust laws," but he declined to discuss specifics of the case because it remained in litigation and would be appealed by Microsoft.
The litigation will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court and may meet a bench of eight Justices.
Throughout the litigation, government officials have repeatedly appealed incremental rulings in the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
[C1.] VIOXX LITIGATION An appeals court in Texas overturned a $26 million verdict against Merck, while an appeals court in New Jersey sharply reduced a verdict in another Vioxx case.
FedEx decided to settle to avoid a lengthy and costly litigation and appeals process, she added.
If cases were brought, however, the lengthy litigation and appeal process would defer final decisions for two years or more, ie until the closing days of the Doha round.
