About 15 months after the Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit rebuked U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson for talking to the media in the Microsoft antitrust case, Jackson has formally filed his rebuttal. Jackson's venue of choice to file his reply brief is, naturally, the court of public opinion, and specifically the local trade paper, Legal Times, which headlined his commentary, "Don't Gag the Judges; It makes no sense to keep the judiciary silent."
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