[Am-info] 25 states unite to fight Microsoft motion

[John J. Urbaniak]

"T.Guilbert" wrote:

> In a message dated 2002 March 16 (Saturday), timestamp 11:52 AM,
>    on the topic [Am-info] 25 states unite to fight Microsoft motion,
>    John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org> wrote:
>
> "|http://news.com.com/2100-1001-861562.html
>
> "|Looks like another 25 states have joined the 9 already holding out
> "|making  a total of 34!
>
> "|This looks really sisgnificant.
>
> "Looks" is the operative word.  The piling on was only on the limited
> legal issue whether federal antitrust law preempts state antitrust
> law.  The states have a vested interest in the proposition that they
> can regulate independently of the way the winds are blowing in the
> District of Columbia, and Microsoft's assertion tht the nine could not
> pursue the case after the feds had settled raised an alarm signal.

Yeah, but it was still the Microsoft case.  I'm sure the new states are
thinking they might want to file actions of their own against MS some
day.  This gives them the opportunity to do so.

John