Document: Order of Judge Jackson, 5/22/98.

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Order of Judge Thomas Jackson.
Consolidating cases, and setting pretrial deadlines.
Re: DOJ v. Microsoft, Case No. 98-1232, 1233.
Date: May 22, 1998.
Source: U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, website.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,

MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
Defendant.

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STATE OF NEW YORK, et al.,
Plaintiffs,

MICROSOFT CORPORATION,
Defendant.

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ORDER

Upon consideration of the motions of Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") to consolidate Civil Action Nos. 98-1232 and 98-1233 for all purposes, and for an enlargement of time in which to respond to plaintiffs' applications for preliminary injunctions and for entry of a scheduling order, for the reasons set forth on the record at the scheduling conference of May 22, 1998, it is, this ____ day of May, 1998,

ORDERED, that, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 42(a), Microsoft's motions to consolidate are provisionally granted, and Civil Action Nos. 98-1232 and 98-1233 are consolidated for all purposes, pending further order of the Court; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED, that, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(a)(2), the trial of both actions on the merits is advanced and consolidated with the hearing of plaintiffs' applications for preliminary injunctions; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED, that Microsoft shall file its answers to the complaints on or before July 28, 1998; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED, that Microsoft shall file its oppositions to plaintiffs' applications for preliminary injunctions on or before August 10, 1998; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED, that plaintiffs shall file their replies, if any, to defendant's oppositions on or before August 24, 1998; and it is

FURTHER ORDERED, the Court having found that no prejudice to the parties will be caused thereby, that these actions are scheduled for hearing on plaintiffs' applications for preliminary injunctions and for trial on the merits to commence on September 8, 1998.

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Thomas Penfield Jackson
U.S. District Judge