Civil Action No. 98-1232 (CKK) February 28, 2002 MEMORANDUM OPINION COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY, United States District Judge. Before the Court is a motion to intervene, or in the alternative, for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae, brought by the "California plaintiffs." Mot. to Intervene at 1. Proposed intervenors identify themselves as "the 13 million plaintiffs in the certified indirect purchaser class action pending against Microsoft in California Superior Court." Id. at 1. The California plaintiffs