Articles Tagged with monopoly

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is urging a judge to mandate the sale of Google’s Chrome browser in an antitrust case aimed at curbing Google’s monopoly in the search market. Following a 10-week trial last year, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google broke antitrust laws in online search and search…

On Tuesday, September 26, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, Inc. in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington.

On Monday, May 13, 2019, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Apple, Inc. v. Pepper, 587 U.S. __ (2019). Four iPhone users sued Apple, Inc., alleging that the company monopolized the app market, which resulted in higher-than-competitive prices for apps. Apple argued that the consumer-plaintiffs were barred from suing Apple since the consumer-plaintiffs were not "direct purchasers" from Apple, as defined in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431 U.S. 720, 745-746 (1977). The District Court agreed with Apple, while the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and concluded that the consumer-plaintiffs were direct purchasers because they purchased the apps directly from Apple. 

Apple will tell the Supreme Court today that it cannot be sued by the iPhone owners who claim that the App Store has an unlawful monopoly.