[Am-info] OT - Supreme Court to consider individual antitrust suits

[Eric Bennett]

Not directly related to Microsoft, but a ruling in this case could affect
Microsoft-related cases in the future, since some Microsoft customers have
had an interest in directly suing the company:



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/10/supremecourt/main543399.shtml

The court will also decide whether an individual customer can sue a company
for breaking anti-trust laws. 

The case involves a New York man's claim that Verizon, which has a legal
monopoly over phone lines but must lease them to competitors, deliberately
gives shoddy service to those lines which competitors - and their customers
- use.  Other big businesses have asked the court to reject the man's
claim, for fear that it could touch of [sic] a multitude of individual
anti-trust lawsuits. 



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