Wherefore, for the reasons stated, the People consent to the relief requested and recommend that the Court vacate the defendants' convictions in their entirety.
In an abrupt reversal of position, the district court elected to enter sweeping relief requested by the government without affording Microsoft any process whatsoever.
The fact that no court has ordered the breakup of a unitary company like Microsoft demonstrates the extreme nature of the relief requested by the government.
Before it critiqued the government's remedy proposal, Microsoft stressed once again that "the relief requested by the government is extreme and unjustified".
"Under the circumstances," Lasker said, "the motion for a preliminary injunction for the relief requested, namely, to stop the show, is denied".
The Court dramatically accelerated the trial of this action, and consolidated it with the hearing on the government's motion for a preliminary injunction, in part because the final relief requested by the government in its complaint was essentially the same as the relief requested in its preliminary injunction motion.
First of all, filing a motion is not the same thing has having the court grant it, which is not the same thing as actually implementing the relief requested in the motion.
"In an abrupt reversal of position, the district court elected to enter sweeping relief requested by the government without affording Microsoft any process whatsoever," said Steven L. Holley, a lawyer representing Microsoft.
Together with its final judgment, the district court issued a remarkable six-page memorandum that purports to explain the basis for its entry of the sweeping relief requested by plaintiffs.
"Microsoft's stay motion has been pending for nearly a week, and the district court has 'failed to afford the relief requested' by the motion," the company's brief explained.
