United States Fourth Circuit

Order certifying a class of consumers seeking damages against a software manufacturer in antitrust litigation and excluding from the class certain "Enterprise" customers of the software at issue is affirmed where the representative parties' claims were not typical of the claims of the enterprise customers.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/28/2005
• Decided 02/07/2006
• Published 02/07/2006

Judges

• Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Daniel A. Small, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.  David Bruce Tulchin, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, New York, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Michael D. Hausfeld, Michael W. Byrne, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, D.C.;  Stanley M. Chesley, Robert Heuck, II, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio;  Dianne M. Nast, Michael Nast, Roda & Nast, Lancaster, Pennsylvania;  Douglas Thompson, William Butterfield, Finkelstein, Thompson & Loughran, Washington, D.C.;  Frank C. Dudenhefer, Cummings, Cummings & Dudenhefer, New Orleans, Louisiana;  James R. Malone, Chimicles & Tikellis, L.L.P., Birmingham, Alabama;  Elwood S. Simon, John P. Zuccarini, Elwood Simon & Associates, Birmingham, Alabama;  Robert A. Skirnick, Meredith, Cohen, Greenfogel & Skirnick, P.C., New York, New York;  William Markovits, Markovits & Greiwe, Cincinnati, Ohio;  Lynn L. Sarko, Mark Griffin, Raymond Farrow, Keller Rohrback, L.L.P., Seattle, Washington;  Christopher Lovell, Lovell, Stewart & Halebian, L.L.P., New York, New York;  Melissa H. Maxman, Duane Morris, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;  William Kerschaw, Kerschaw, Cutter, Ratinoff & York, Sacramento, California;  James Patrick Ulwick, Kramon & Graham, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants. Michael F. Brockmeyer, Jeffrey D. Herschman, Piper Rudnick, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland;  Richard J. Wallis, Steven J. Aeschbacher, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington;  Daryl A. Libow, Richard C. Pepperman, II, Sharon L. Nelles, Sullivan & Cromwell, L.L.P., New York, New York;  Charles B. Casper, Peter Breslauer, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.