Antitrust cases brought against Microsoft Corp. by two rivals must be heard by a court that's already handling more than 100 other antitrust lawsuits against the software giant, a panel ruled last week. Those rivals, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Be Inc., had hoped to keep their cases in California, where they originated. But the Multi-District Litigation panel, which decides whether cases filed in different states should be heard by a single judge, last week ordered the cases transferred to U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz's Baltimore courtroom.
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