No 'rubber stamp' on telecom mergers, judge says
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Judge says he'll do "independent review" of deals between AT&#38;T-SBC and Verizon-MCI, but offers no hints of when a ruling will come.
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Late Friday, the Federal Communications Commission's general counsel, on prompting from the chairman, ruled that a commissioner who had recused himself from proceedings on the proposed AT&T/BellSouth merger may now participate in the vote. Commissioner Robert McDowell was formerly an employee of the lobbying group CompTel, that has been on record as opposing such mergers.
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that Florida's elections division did not need to create a paper trail for the controversial touchscreen voting systems that will be used by about half the state's voters in next week's presidential election.
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A federal judge has ruled that Oracle can proceed with its bid to acquire PeopleSoft, saying that the merger would not stifle competition in the market.
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The European Commission was wrong to  bar the takeover bid by U.S. telecoms firm WorldCom for rival  Sprint, a European Union court said on Tuesday, annulling the  action taken four years ago.
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Industry watchers don&#39;t expect any trouble from regulators or competitors when it comes to the proposed Sprint (Quote, Chart) Nextel (Quote, Chart) merger.
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The nation's chief communications regulator on Thursday defended a public statement in which he said he wouldn't enforce some conditions imposed on AT&amp;T Corp. as a condition of approving its buyout of BellSouth Corp.
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Citing national security, a federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit aimed at blocking AT&amp;T from giving telephone records to the government for use in the war on terror.
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AT&amp;T Corp., MCI Inc., and a number of smaller telephone companies were rebuffed by the US Supreme Court yesterday in their quest to save cut-rate deals to rent Bell System phone lines they use to serve business and residential customers.
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Congress will block telecom legislation without a Net neutrality compromise, a Democratic congressman said.
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A federal judge Thursday rejected the federal government's request to block Oracle's  (ORCL) &#36;7.7 billion hostile takeover bid for software rival PeopleSoft (PSFT), removing a major hurdle to one of the biggest mergers in Silicon Valley history.
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A federal judge dismissed VeriSign's antitrust claims against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, dealing another setback to the company in its ongoing legal battle against the Internet's technical coordinating body.
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A federal judge on Thursday rejected the government's attempt to block Oracle Corp.'s &#36;7.7 billion takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc., concluding a combination between the business software makers wouldn't throttle competition in a narrow market niche.
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The FCC has ruled against state regulation of voice-over-IP phone services, saying that disparate state regulations would slow their rollout.
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A U.S. court ruled on Thursday that  Dell Inc.  personal-organizer products did not infringe  a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent  , according to  a court document.
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A federal judge may have sent a gift to all merger-minded U.S. executives when he rejected the government's request to block Oracle Corp.'s  bid for PeopleSoft Inc.  last week.
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A judge in a San Diego court late Thursday dismissed one of several patent claims Alcatel-Lucent SA has made against Microsoft Corp. in several high-profile cases against the vendor, but that does not mean the software company is out of the woods yet.