Microsoft, AOL end document scuffle
C|Net | at | by Mike
AOL Time Warner and Microsoft on Monday resolved their differences over which documents will be released as part of the ongoing litigation in the software giant's antitrust trial. On Wednesday, Microsoft filed a brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asserting that AOL Time Warner had not released all of the documents requested as part of a discovery process. AOL Time Warner charged that Microsoft filed its Wednesday brief in response to a different lawsuit that Netscape Communications--a unit of AOL--had filed the previous day.
In a Monday letter to Kollar-Kotelly, AOL lawyers wrote that "AOL and Microsoft are pleased to inform the court that they have resolved their differences regarding the outstanding discovery disputes that were the subject of Microsoft's motion to compel. That motion is therefore withdrawn." Microsoft lawyers sent a separate letter stating basically the same information.