As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1981–1983,[1] 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.
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.
Additionally, under his leadership, the U.S. Justice Department promulgated revised guidelines that it would use to enforce U.S. antitrust laws going forward.
This book, though aimed at a law audience, contains a philosophically sophisticated stance on the topic of animal rights.
In this sense we have obligations to how we treat non-human animals, but the grounds is only because of the respective impact on human beings.