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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND IN RE MICROSOFT CORP. ANTITRUST LITIGATION * * MDL 1332 * ***** OPINION

Microsoft has filed a motion for partial summary as to plaintiffs' "essential facility" and "monopoly leveraging claims."1 The motion will be granted in both respects. I. Plaintiffs allege that "the specifications for . . . [the] Windows" operating system constitute an essential facility and that Microsoft "refus[ed], limit[ed] and manipulat[ed] its actual and potential competitors' access to the specifications while preferentially or freely granting itself such access." Compl.

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