David Boies
David Boies
David Boiesis an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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What I am asking is that the court use its power so that the votes of all the people of Florida that have been cast can be counted,
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The Supreme Court of the United States has not, at least for 100 years and maybe going back further, ever stepped in to change the results of a national election by substituting its judgment as to how votes ought to be counted for the judgment of local election officials,
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The statute says you need only have a sufficient number of votes to change or place in the doubt the results of an election. (Sauls) has not even looked at any of the ballots.
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From the beginning we've said we are going to respect the rule of law. If the Supreme Court of the United States says no more votes will be counted, then that's the end of it,
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In the roughly six hours that the counting of the votes took place, a very large amount of progress was made. If the count had continued yesterday afternoon and this morning, that count would be largely completed, with possibly the exception of one or two counties that were outside of the Tallahassee area,
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The court heard Judge (Charles) Burton (of the Palm Beach County canvassing board), called by the defendants, testify that they had been able to identify the clear intent of the voters such to add a net 215 votes to Vice President Gore.
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What the sense seems to be is that somehow Gov. Bush's campaign should be protected from Gov. Bush's lawyers, if they didn't ask for a recount, and therefore there should be recount anyway, even if they didn't ask for it.
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The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs.
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Microsoft had an opportunity to ask any questions it wanted to about the nature of those sensitive business discussions. Unless Microsoft wants to claim that, like some indigent criminal defendants, they are unable to procure competent counsel on their own, it's really up to them to ask those questions.
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I would be very, very surprised if we uncovered a large fraud at this stage. The work we have done would have been enough to uncover a very large fraud at this stage.
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Well, if you're winning browser share, that must mean that some other company is producing browsers and you're comparing your share of browsers with somebody else's share of browsers, ... Is that not so, sir?
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Whether you think their witnesses are credible or non-credible ... they've admitted monopoly power, they've admitted the absence of competitive constraints, they've admitted raising prices to hurt consumers, they've admitted depriving consumers of choice and they've admitted that the reason that they did that was because they were afraid that consumers would in their view make the wrong choice, which is the non-Microsoft choice,
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The only reason for them to collusively not sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural-gas prices to historic highs.