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Wisconsin court lets Microsoft class action suit proceed

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Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent for CNET. You can e-mail him or follow him on Twitter as declanm. Declan previously was a reporter for Time and the Washington bureau chief for Wired and wrote the Taking Liberties section and Other People's Money column for CBS News' Web site.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated a class action suit against Microsoft that, like pretty much all of the other similar suits across the country, alleges anticompetitive conduct.

In a decision published on July 13, the court overturned a trial judge and sent back the case for a full trial.

The court stressed it wasn't reaching any conclusion about who should win the case, and in fact the decision was based on a hairy area of how state law related to the U.S. Constitution and interstate commerce.