Canadian Court Certifies Class Against Microsoft

By Jacqueline Bell

Law360, New York (March 11, 2010, 6:28 PM ET) -- A Canadian court has agreed to certify a class of indirect purchasers of Microsoft Corp. software that claims anti-competitive conduct by the software titan caused them to pay higher prices.

Justice Elliott M. Myers of the Supreme Court of British Columbia on March 5 found that plaintiff Pro-Sys Consultants Ltd. had met each of the requirements for class certification, rejecting Microsoft's arguments that the proposed class was too broad and class membership could not be objectively determined.

In order to certify the class, the court had...
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