A FEDERAL COURT in Baltimore Tuesday set Oct. 1 as the date for a hearing on whether more than 100 antitrust suits filed by consumers against Microsoft should be grouped together as a class action suit, according to people who attended the hearing. In a pretrial conference before Judge Frederick Motz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Oct. 1 was scheduled as the date for a class certification of the cases. The parties also set Oct. 24 as the date for a hearing on whether Microsoft can be bound by findings already issued in the U.S. Department of Justice's case against the software maker, according to people who attended the hearing.
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