31.  A government official close to the Microsoft antitrust case confirmed that the plaintiffs will not seek to break Microsoft into three or four companies.

32.  A federal judge Monday refused to dismiss the antitrust case against Microsoft, but agreed to postpone the trial for three weeks.

33.  A lawyer who helped represent the Justice Department in its antitrust case against Microsoft.

34.  After all, this is what happened the last time the government went to court in an antitrust case this big.

35.  All three companies have testified for the government against Microsoft in the antitrust case.

36.  But antitrust cases require plaintiffs to define the market in question.

37.  But both the Nasdaq market and the market makers themselves have settled antitrust cases since then, leaving them in a weakened position.

38.  But even the most expeditious courts are too slow in many eyes, part of the reason so many antitrust cases are settled.

39.  But Klein deflected a question to compare the case against Microsoft to another landmark antitrust case, the one that reconfigured the nationwide telephone system.

40.  But on issues presented in the antitrust case, party affiliation is a notoriously poor barometer.