LOL, I knew he'd return to his normal BS immediately. Obviously this whole matter belongs in the US because it is other US companies like IBM that brought it before the EU. The EU shouldn't be settling a squabble between US companies, the US should. Of course, the US already resolved all these complaints to the US's satisfaction, which is why IBM went crying to the EU. Hopefully Microsoft will win on appeal, since we don't need foreign courts deciding disputes between US companies, especially those already settled in the US.
You seem to forget that MS didn't violate US law, but EU regulation. This is simply the appeal within the EU structure.
MS's problems are with the EU, not with the US. With the exceptions of these frivolous legal actions against Novell, IBM, etc., neither the government nor the US courts have ABSOLUTELY NO SAY WHATSOEVER in what happens in Europe.
What happened is that the arbitrators refused to grant MS the ability to subpoena these documents. Subsequently, MS took these companies to federal courts and tried to pry these documents that way.
The truth is that MS wants those documents badly. I don't know why, but as I've said, I suspect the information in them can be used as key items their defense.
A rather shady legal manueuver, but completely legitimate.