Supreme Court to Decide Where Microsoft Anti-Trust Case Lands.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: June 20, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Jun. 21--A federal judge sent the Microsoft antitrust case to the Supreme Court Tuesday, supporting the government's attempt to leapfrog over an appeals court to resolve the historic case more quickly.

However, it's unclear whether the required majority of the Supreme Court will agree to hear the case or redirect it back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It's extremely unusual for the nation's highest court to directly accept a case from a trial court, although a special portion of antitrust law allows the justices to do so for cases of "general ...

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