Thomas P. Jackson | Federal judge, 76

Thomas Penfield Jackson, 76, a former federal judge in Washington, died of cancer Saturday at home in Compton, Md., according to his wife, Patricia.

Mr. Jackson presided over a closely watched antitrust trial that resulted in his 2000 order that Microsoft be broken into two companies. An appeals court reversed the breakup order and appointed a different judge to determine a new punishment.

He also presided over the drug-possession trial of Marion Barry, who was mayor of Washington at the time. Barry unsuccessfully appealed his six-month sentence, arguing that Mr. Jackson had shown bias in comments made to a Harvard University audience after his trial. - AP