21.  If the players defeat decertification, the lawsuit is expected to go down with it because courts have held that a collective bargaining relationship precludes antitrust action.

22.  In addition, the District of Columbia is a party to the antitrust action.

23.  In those days, GM so dominated American auto production that Detroit feared antitrust action to break up the car maker.

24.  Justice officials confirm that a broad scale antitrust action against Microsoft is under active review.

25.  Last year, Intuit was courted by Microsoft Corp. until delays and threatened antitrust action prompted Microsoft to scuttle the plan.

26.  Major League Baseball, with its special immunity from antitrust action, is not directly involved.

27.  Many companies, including Lotus, Borland and Novell, had hoped the government would see things their way and crack down on Microsoft in a blockbuster antitrust action.

28.  Microsoft also agreed to divest its competing product, Money, to Novell Inc. for an undisclosed amount, to avoid antitrust action.

29.  Not since U.S. District Judge David Edelstein in New York oversaw the long-running antitrust action involving IBM has a federal judge faced such an important antitrust contest.

30.  On Wednesday in Washington, lawyers for Microsoft and the nine states pursuing antitrust action against it completed their final arguments.