Legal Opinion
In Re South Dakota Microsoft Antitrust Litigation
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided February 12, 2003No. NonePublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERTSON, Chief Justice.
[¶ 1.] The Sixth Judicial Circuit Court granted class certification in this indirect-purchaser antitrust action to members of a certified class of South Dakota end-users (Class Members). This Court granted a diseretionary appeal brought by Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft). We affirm the circuit court’s certification order.
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[¶ 2.] The Class Members, who are indirect purchasers of Microsoft Windows or MS-DOS operating systems software (OSS), are residents of the State of South Dakota. The Class Members allege that Microsoft has maintained a monopoly…
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