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Mike Pietruk <[log in to unmask]>
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Mike Pietruk <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:18:28 -0500
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Don

I presume you are reffering to the mouse control keys that screen readers 
have enable.
This NFB action has its point which eventually the courts will decide upon 
unless, of course, the 2 parties reach an out of court settlement or 
legislation resolves the matter.
If the courts are used to take this through the entire process, and the 
Supreme Court got the case and chose to rule on it, then this would have 
meaning.
Right now, as it stands, this is much ado about nothing as nothing has 
been decided other than the case having legal matter.
And if the Supreme Court, in the end, chose not to hear the appeal from 
whichever side was the last looser,
then that decision would only have legal standing in the Federal district 
in which it was filed.
This has a long way to go if the Court route is followed.
I doubt that the NFB wants it to go that far for both financial and 
potential legal reasons.
Hence, at some point, I would expect that the lawyers will get together, 
figure out a workable settlement, and tell their clients that this is the 
best that can be done.
Target, needless to say, has far greater financial resources able to be 
committed to this, and they have to come with a resolution that saves 
face.
I think it's only a matter of time that will see a resolution with great 
fanfare from both sides to gain the maximum pr.


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