US won't oversee added Microsoft sanctions
Reuters | at | by Mike
It will be up to state prosecutors to enforce antitrust sanctions against Microsoft Corp. that go beyond the company's settlement with the Justice Department, the department's chief antitrust enforcer said on Thursday. The department's antitrust division won't be responsible for overseeing a handful of additional restrictions that a federal judge added to her landmark antitrust ruling at the behest of some state attorneys general, U.S. antitrust chief Charles James said after a speech on Thursday. The ruling handed down last week by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly endorsed Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the U.S. government and nine states.