FTC VS Microsoft: Judge's Son Works for Microsoft - Issue?

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Ryuu96 said:

rapsuperstar31 said:

Considering the judge that was supposed to be in the Desantis/Disney case was basically forced to recuse himself because a relative owned Disney stock, I can see the reason for this judge to recuse themself as well. I don't personally think the judge is going to come to a decision because their son works at Microsoft, so i don't care either way.

There's quite a large difference between a relative owning stock and a relative working for a company (not even in the gaming department). In addition, DeSantis team asked the Judge to recuse himself to begin with, however, he recused himself for a different reason than what DeSantis team asked him to recuse himself for.

In this scenario, Judge Corley informed both FTC and Microsoft pre-trial that she had a relative who works for Microsoft, the FTC did not have any issue with that, despite wanting to block the deal, the FTC did not ask her to recuse herself, when it was fully within their power to do so. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I read before that both Microsoft and FTC agreed upon Corley for the case, she is respected by both parties.

If the FTC didn't care, then I don't see why anyone else should.

All tech companies will let you purchase the companies stock at a discount as part of your benefits package and will even give you stock as a bonus, if the son works in a retail shop he probably doesn't have stock but if he is higher up, he more than likely has some Microsoft stock.  Either way, like I said I don't think the judge should be removed in either case.