As part of that practice, he is the author of Baxter's Law or the Bell Doctrine. Justice Department promulgated revised guidelines that it would use to enforce U.S. Additionally, under his leadership, the U.S. On that same day, he dismissed as "without merit" a seemingly endless, thirteen-year-old suit against IBM, which had employed more than 300 lawyers and generated 2,500 depositions and 66 million pages of documents. His specialty was antitrust law.Īs Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1981–1983, Baxter commanded wide public attention when in 1982 he settled a seven-year-old case against AT&T with by far the largest breakup in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, splitting AT&T up into seven regional phone companies. (J– November 27, 1998) was a law professor at Stanford University.
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