An end-consumer class of individuals and businesses in California sued Microsoft for monopoly overcharges on the Windows operating system, as well as MS Word and MS Excel applications. The case was originally filed in early 1999, nearly a year before Judge Jackson…
applEcon was instrumental in preventing a settlement of all private U.S. antitrust claims against Microsoft by showing that the proposed settlement was anticompetitive, inadequate, and unworkable for the impoverished schools it purported to help.
applEcon quantified damages suffered by Sudanese tribesmen from military attacks allegedly facilitated by Talisman Energy by collecting evidence of the tribesmen’s losses of cattle and millet, land and dwellings. We then quantified the dollar value of these losses…