High Court: Novell case against Microsoft can go forward
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Microsoft on Monday to halt an antitrust suit that Novell filed against the company for anticompetitive behavior it said harmed its WordPerfect and Quattro Pro business in the 1990s.
The Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari request by Microsoft for a case Novell filed in a U.S. District Court in Maryland nearly 10 years after the Waltham, Mass., company sold the programs in question to Corel. A writ of certiorari asks the Supreme Court to review and rule on a decision by a lower court and is typically filed by a losing party in a case.