Friday, Nov. 29, 2002 | 11:03 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Some states will appeal a U.S. judge's decision accepting a landmark antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department, but the majority of nine states that had opposed the deal plan no court action, a person familiar with the decision said today.
The attorneys general in most of the nine states were expected to announce their decisions later today, beginning with Tom Reilly of Massachusetts.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly earlier this month accepted nearly all the provisions of the government's settlement with Microsoft.
In doing so, she rebuffed arguments by nine states and the District of Columbia that tougher sanctions were essential to restore competition in the computer industry. She concluded that some penalties proposed by those states would chiefly benefit the company's rivals.
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