Ok. I've read it. It is better, but it still has some fundamental flaws, imho. It might be enough to get them a temporary injunction pending appeal.
Nah. This is not the full brief on appeal. It's just their argument on the injunction pending the appeal. Still it is a bit better than what they sent to Judge Corley. It might be enough to get them a temporary injunction past the 14th, either for while the appeal is sorted, or on a shorter time just while the judge decides whether to grant an injunction during the pendency of the appeal. If I were the appellate judge, and if I hadn't been paying much attention to the case so far, I'd be reading whatever MSFT puts in Friday, but there's a strong chance I'd issue an Order Friday delaying it to Monday at 5:00 P.M. or until I ordered differently, and then I'd have a weekend of reviewing the order, the cases, etc., resulting in me shooting out an Order Monday or even over the weekend. It is hard to unscramble the egg on mergers, and I can see a judge who hasn't been paying close attention wanting to get a peek behind the curtain before letting it go through.
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Lol. It would be frustrating if an extension was granted because FTC didn't give the Judges enough time to review the data, basically rewards the FTC for their delay tactics, if they brought the case forward sooner, instead of dragging things out as long as possible, they could have gone through the trial and given the Judges weeks-months to decide on things. The law is the law, I suppose, Judges will be professional, but I'd want to tell the FTC to go away and it's their fault they brought it forward so late.
