TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Judge Refuses to Remove Himself From IBM Case: U.S. District Judge David Edelstein in New York rejected an International Business Machines Corp. request that he remove himself from the decades old consent-decree case. Last month, IBM asked the court to lift the 1956 court order that bars IBM from certain computer-services businesses. Before the request could proceed on its merits, IBM had asked Edelstein to remove himself from the case, contending that the judge has shown bias against IBM during the litigation. In a written opinion, Edelstein refused to reassign the case, saying that IBM’s bias allegations are “without merit.”
