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Say it ain&#8217;t so!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) is planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/4\/23804.html\">file suit<\/a> against both Micro$oft and the Dept. of Justice, claiming that, in violation of the Tunney Act, the two sides have had undisclosed, undocumented meetings to arrive at the proposed antitrust settlement.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m shocked, positively shocked to discover that this sweetheart deal might have been brokered out of the public eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) is planning to file suit against both Micro$oft and the Dept. of Justice, claiming that, in violation of the Tunney Act, the two sides have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1326,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/24\/hey_this_is_kin.html","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":0},"title":"Hey, this is kind of work-related","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Jan-02 8:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Under the Tunney Act, individuals may submit comments to federal courts about proposed settlements. 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