=DJ DOJ, Microsoft -3: DOJ Says Case Raises Novel Issues
The DOJ's determination that it could not, as a matter of legal analysis, oppose a case that represents a sharp rebuke of its settlement represents yet another twist in a long and complicated case. But the agency subtly criticized the non-settling states, saying they are seeking "far-reaching remedial proposals, many of which appear unrelated to the theories of illegality advanced by the United States ... and the findings of liability sustained by the courts."
The department added that the non-settling states' case "raises for the very first time the prospect that a small group of states, with no particularized interests to vindicate, might somehow obtain relief with wide-ranging, national economic implications."
The states and the Justice Department had separately sued Microsoft in the same court, alleging largely the same violations of monopoly power. The cases were consolidated by the court in May of 1998, tried, ruled upon, appealed and remanded together for further proceedings by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
But in February, Judge Kollar-Kotelly formally separated the cases after the nine non-settling states rejected a settlement between Microsoft, the Justice Department and nine other states.
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