[link|http://news.com.com/2100-1001-834930.html|Hide the ball]

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WASHINGTON--The nine state attorneys general still pressing an antitrust case against Microsoft told a federal judge on Monday she should bar more than a dozen last-minute witnesses Microsoft plans to call to argue against more severe sanctions against the company.
Attorneys for California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and six other states told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that Microsoft had used a "hide-the-ball" tactic by naming 23 new witnesses in the case Friday, only hours before the deadline.

The states accused Microsoft of trying to delay the proceedings and argued that the judge should not allow Microsoft to present 16 of the witnesses because the company had shown a "blatant disregard for this court's schedule and for the reasonable and appropriate conduct of litigation."