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Legal experts discuss the ramifications of the recent court decision in the ongoing dispute

On September 10, 2021, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Fortnite developer Epic Games (Epic) failed to adequately prove its...

07/07/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/07/2021 17:25 Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Against Google for Anticompetitive Practices Related to Google Play Store OAKLAND - California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a multistate lawsuit against Google for monopolizing the smartphone application market in violation of state and federal antitrust laws. Google, one of the worlds largest companies, operates a web of exclusionary agreements with phone manufacturers and...

Prior to stepping down as California's attorney general to assume his new role as secretary of health and human services, Xavier Becerra consolidated all aspects of healthcare enforcement under a new Healthcare Rights and Access Section. Antitrust enforcement in healthcare will now be under the auspices of this new section. The antitrust staff attorneys assigned to this section will inevitably bring healthcare into even sharper focus.

DOJ and PLS argue that lower court should have considered Clear Cooperation Policy's impact on brokers who directly purchase access to listing services.

I thought we were friends Matthew Hughes Fri 7 May 2021 // 14:35 UTC Share An Apple exec has spoken of his shock after Fortnite creator Epic Games installed a hotfix that allowed it to deploy its own payment methods, thus skirting the 30 per cent App Store tax. Testifying on the fourth day of the bench trial, Apples vice president of App Store, Matt Fischer, said he had been "blindsided" by the deployment of the workaround, given the amicable relationship previously enj...

Health your username March 10, 2021 Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the Northern District of California on Tuesday partially granted summary judgment to medical care provider Sutter Health, the defendant in a class-action that began in 2012. The suit claimed that Sutter has engaged in anticompetitive practices through contracts with health plans that allegedly unfairly raise prices for those insured. The named plaintiffs, including four individuals insured under health plans in network with S...

Inman Connect It seems a former pocket listing service is not going down without a fight. The PLS, formerly a private listing network for real estate agents, is appealing a dismissal of its antitrust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors and three of the nation’s largest multiple listing services. In May 2020, The PLS filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against NAR and the California Regional MLS (CRMLS), Bright MLS and Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) over a policy designed to ...

Inman Connect A federal court has permanently tossed an antitrust lawsuit filed by a former pocket listing service against the National Association of Realtors and three of the largest multiple listing services in the country, finding that the plaintiff’s arguments are so flawed that the case cannot be saved. In May 2020, The PLS, formerly a private listing network for real estate agents, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against NAR and the California Regional MLS (CRMLS), Bright MLS and M...

Introduction In December 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was announced to be President-Elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The California Attorney Generals Office is the second largest Justice Department in the United States, second only to the U.S. Department of Justice, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was the first Latino Attorney General in Californias history. Before becoming the Attorney General of Californi...