From AOL to the EU, more legal battles loom
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Even as Microsoft Corp. won endorsement of its antitrust settlement with the Justice Department yesterday, a number of other antitrust cases are pending against the world's largest software maker.
They range from a suit by rival AOL Time Warner to hundreds of claims by individual consumers in several states, many consolidated in the Baltimore courtroom of one federal judge. While future judgments in U.S. courtrooms may be guided by yesterday's ruling, the antitrust scrutiny of the 15-nation European Union is less likely to be swayed.