Microsoft wins point in Netscape Antitrust Battle
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Just days after the company was handed a resounding legal victory by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Microsoft got another reprieve when a Baltimore judge ruled that Netscape cannot hold the software giant liable for destroying its Web browser business. US District Judge J. Frederick Motz is presiding over a number of private lawsuits that arose in the wake of Microsoft's federal case, and one of the criteria before him concerns whether the new suits could use the Findings of Fact from the federal case. A California court has already ruled that most of the Findings of Fact do apply to private lawsuits in that state, making it easier for plaintiffs there to seek monetary damages from the convicted monopolist. And while Motz also approved a number of the facts from the Findings of Fact in Netscape's lawsuit, he withheld a key ruling that might have greatly helped the company.