United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation.

Since the early 1990s computer software giant Microsoft had been the target of federal investigations. In November 1999 a federal judge issued a "finding of facts" that stated the company had used its monopolistic market position to aggressively stifle competition and harm consumers. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia heard testimony between October 1998 and June 1999 on the civil antitrust allegations that Microsoft had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) and various state statutes. In what was only an initial, albeit important, stage in the judicial process, the ruling in United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation, laid out the factual basis for determining that Microsoft had violated antitrust laws.

Antitrust Laws.

The Sherman Act was passed to dismantle monopolies of the giant steel companies and other huge corporations that emerged...