Judge denies Microsoft dismissal request
C|Net | at | by Mike
A federal judge on Wednesday denied Microsoft's request to dismiss the antitrust case being pursued against it by nine states and the District of Columbia. Microsoft had asked U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to dismiss the case in part because the Justice Department and nine other states had separately settled with the software giant. The plaintiff states and the District of Columbia rejected that settlement and chose to continue litigation. But Microsoft argued that only the Justice Department should determine national antitrust policy, a role the company claimed the litigating states were trying to usurp. Four other motions are still pending before Kollar-Kotelly, as well as a final decision on the separate settlement.