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Antitrust Talks All Above Board, Says Microsoft
News Still, the Tunney Act requires a judge to review a proposed settlement to ensure it is in the public interest. The first track, proceeding under the Tunney Act, will wrap up the company's November settlement with the Justice Department and nine of...
[December 11, 2001, 12:29]
Lawsuit Targets Microsoft And The DoJ
News Foer's group would essentially like US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to put on hold the 60-day period of public comment mandated by the Tunney Act while she reviews the allegations. We made the disclosures required by the Tunney Act and are...
[January 25, 2002, 9:46]
Judge Clears Way To Antitrust Verdict
News As mandated by the Nixon-era Tunney Act, the settlement must pass two important hurdles before Kollar-Kotelly can approve the deal. In a memorandum dated Monday but released Tuesday afternoon, US district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly concluded the...
[July 3, 2002, 7:59]
Microsoft Foes Can Testify At Hearing
News While participating in the Tunney Act proceeding, the litigating states will be preparing for a separate 11 March hearing on stiffer sanctions against Microsoft. The litigating states also will participate in the Tunney Act proceeding but in a...
[March 1, 2002, 8:53]
Microsoft Foes Urge Antitrust Punishment
News Under the Tunney Act, a federal judge must determine that such an antitrust settlement is "in the public interest. During the Tunney Act proceedings, the Consumers for Computing Choice and Open Platform Working Group unsuccessfully urged the judge...
[January 3, 2003, 8:49]
Microsoft Antitrust Debate Heats Up
News Microsoft filed a brief on 10 December, detailing all communications that it deemed relevant and necessary to meet the standard mandated by the Tunney Act. The period of public comment is part of the process mandated by the Tunney Act, a Nixon-era...
[January 29, 2002, 8:57]
Microsoft Reveals Antitrust Testimony
News Under guidelines set up by the Nixon-era Tunney Act, Kollar-Kotelly must ensure the settlement is in the public interest before approving the deal. One of the conditions of the Tunney Act is that no backroom political deal-making can influence an...
[March 5, 2002, 8:53]
Netscape Seeks More Than Money
News The Tunney Act proceeding before Judge Kollar-Kotelly contemplates receiving the information about the fairness of the settlement from anyone who wants to weigh in," Stanton said. The settlement agreement is undergoing final review after a period...
[January 24, 2002, 9:10]
States To Pursue Microsoft Action
News One track will involve public comment as dictated by the Tunney Act, and the other will be continued litigation with the states not agreeing to the settlement. The Tunney Act requires that the judge would review the deal to ensure that it is in the...
[November 7, 2001, 8:36]
Tech Industry Quiet Over Netscape Lawsuit
News In November, Microsoft, nine states and the Department of Justice reached a settlement that is still undergoing review pursuant to the Tunney Act. The suit, filed in US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks triple damages based on the...
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Netscape Hits Microsoft With Lawsuit
News That settlement is undergoing review pursuant to the Tunney Act. The lawsuit is based on previous court findings that Microsoft's business practices amid the infamous browser wars of the 1990s violated two sections of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act.
[January 23, 2002, 8:44]
25 More States Join Fight Against Microsoft
News While overseeing the settlement proceeding, Kollar-Kotelly must weigh whether the settlement meets the standard demanded by the Nixon-era Tunney Act. In their brief, the 24 states argued that the Clayton Act grants them the authority to continue a...
[March 18, 2002, 9:32]
Microsoft Antitrust Decision Due Today
News Under a federal law called the Tunney Act, Kollar-Kotelly must determine whether the antitrust settlement "is in the public interest". A federal judge will disclose on Friday whether she has accepted a proposed settlement in Microsoft's long...
[November 1, 2002, 7:30]
Microsoft Fires Back At AOL
News Later on Thursday, the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) is expected to file papers alleging that the Justice Department and Microsoft failed to properly disclose all communications during settlement negotiations as required by the Tunney Act.
[January 25, 2002, 6:31]
Public Blasts Microsoft Antitrust Settlement
News Sixty days of public comment concluded on 28 January as mandated by the Tunney Act, a Nixon-era law that requires antitrust settlements be in the public interest. Although Jackson ruled in April 2000 that Microsoft violated two sections of the 1890...
[February 8, 2002, 8:45]
Microsoft, DOJ Unveil Settlement Report
News Sixty days of public comment concluded on 28 January as mandated by the Tunney Act, a Nixon-era law that requires antitrust settlements be in the public interest. The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday released a report summarising public...
[February 8, 2002, 6:31]
Will MS Pact Changes Open Floodgates?
News For now, the case is moving forward on two separate tracks: on the one hand, the approval process for the settlement according to the Tunney Act, on the other, proceedings to determine a remedy in ongoing litigation.
[February 28, 2002, 9:10]
MS To Antitrust Judge: Give Us More Time
News The deal is undergoing a 60-day period of public comment as dictated by the Tunney Act. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly had scheduled the hearing for 11 March, but Microsoft argued that because of the gravity of the remedy nine states are...
[December 24, 2001, 9:27]
Microsoft Dismisses States' Settlement Plan
News Kollar-Kotelly still must approve the agreement, which is undergoing 60 days of public comment as mandated by the Tunney Act. In a widely anticipated move, Microsoft filed a remedy proposal in its antitrust case on Wednesday that closely matches a...
[December 13, 2001, 9:00]
Gates, Ballmer May Testify At Hearing
News Sixty days of public comments concluded on 28 January as mandated by the Tunney Act, a Nixon-era law that requires antitrust settlements be in the public interest. Microsoft is marshalling a frontal assault in its antitrust battle, disclosing plans...
[February 11, 2002, 9:03]
