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US judge decertifies Apple app store class action
The lawsuit was decertified due to unreliable damages calculations and failure to demonstrate classwide harm, ending claims for over 40,000 affected Apple App Store users.
- U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decertified the class action, reversing last year’s go-ahead and granting Apple’s motion in the antitrust lawsuit.
- Unable to show classwide injury, the plaintiffs failed to match Apple ID accounts to consumers and struggled to calculate injured parties, leading to decertification of the classwide damages model.
- Review of the model found grouped, erroneous records including more than 40,000 payment records for people with first name 'Kim' and mismatches between Robert Pepper and 'Rob Pepper'.
- Decertification means individuals must sue separately, and the plaintiffs plan to appeal, as their legal team is `of course disappointed` while Apple spokesperson said it was pleased.
- The suit dates to a 2011 filing alleging an App Store monopoly, and in 2024 Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers reversed certification after narrowing the scope to account holders who spent $10 or more.
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US judge decertifies Apple app store class action
A federal judge decertified on Monday a class action by tens of millions of Apple customers who accused the company of monopolizing the market for iPhone apps by banning purchases outside its App Store, leading to higher prices.
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'Alarming errors' lead to 2024 Apple App Store class action decertification by judge
After more than 13 years of back and forth, an antitrust case that was awarded class action status in 2024 has now lost that status after numerous errors were found in determining affected users.Antitrust lawsuit class action status reversedJudge Gonzalez Rogers had finally given an antitrust case the class action status it had been seeking for more than a decade in 2024. The move was made when the scope of those affected was limited to those th…
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