United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of claims of 26 plaintiffs is affirmed where plaintiffs: 1) were indirect purchasers of defendant's software and were barred from seeking recovery for illegal pass-through overcharges; 2) lacked standing to seek recovery because they failed to demonstrate a direct antitrust-type injury; and 3) where the district court did not abuse its discretion in applying the doctrine of laches to dismiss equitable claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/01/2006
• Decided 04/18/2006
• Published 04/18/2006

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Christopher Lovell, Lovell Stewart Halebian, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Appellants.  David Bruce Tulchin, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, New York, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Gary S. Jacobson, Lovell Stewart Halebian, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Appellants.  G. Stewart Webb, Venable, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland;  Richard J. Wallis, Steven J. Aeschbacher, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington;  Joseph E. Neuhaus, Richard C. Pepperman, II, Sharon L. Nelles, Sullivan & Cromwell, L.L.P., New York, New York;  Charles B. Casper, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.