Federal Judge To Microsoft: NO WAY!
January 11, 2002
Judge Rules Against Settlement Plan in Microsoft Class-Action Suit
By REUTERS
Filed at 2:45 p.m. ET
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday scuttled Microsoft Corp. (news/quote)'s (MSFT.O) proposed multimillion-dollar settlement of the class-action antitrust suits filed against the software company.
U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz said he could not endorse the settlement even though it would have committed Microsoft to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on software and computers for poor schools.
The ruling means Microsoft will have to start from scratch in negotiating a new settlement or fight the scores of suits in court.
The settlement would have resolved more than 100 class-
action antitrust cases pending against Microsoft. Class-action attorneys from California have argued the money should be reimbursed directly to customers who were overcharged for Microsoft software.
Judge Rules Against Settlement Plan in Microsoft Class-Action Suit
By REUTERS
Filed at 2:45 p.m. ET
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday scuttled Microsoft Corp. (news/quote)'s (MSFT.O) proposed multimillion-dollar settlement of the class-action antitrust suits filed against the software company.
U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz said he could not endorse the settlement even though it would have committed Microsoft to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on software and computers for poor schools.
The ruling means Microsoft will have to start from scratch in negotiating a new settlement or fight the scores of suits in court.
The settlement would have resolved more than 100 class-
action antitrust cases pending against Microsoft. Class-action attorneys from California have argued the money should be reimbursed directly to customers who were overcharged for Microsoft software.
Comments
Damn you Steve! Mind your own!
<strong>Remember this is the civil suits brought by various states, not the Federal suit brought my the government.</strong><hr></blockquote>Actually, I believe this is the class-action suit filed by individuals, rather than the feds OR the states.
The state/federal lawsuit -- the nine states that agreed to settle as well as the nine that didn't -- is being heard in Washington. The judge in that case is Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, not Motz.