April 13, 2021
Epic Games didn't break any discovery rules when it offered up three third-party witnesses that it plans to call at its upcoming bench trial with Apple over App Store fees, the California federal judge charged with overseeing the case said Monday.
April 12, 2021
Apple has urged a California federal judge to block Epic Games from calling three witnesses in an upcoming antitrust trial unless they hand over troves of documents, saying Epic caused a "procedural Catch-22" by not disclosing their names in earlier discovery.
March 26, 2021
A California federal judge on Friday placed limits on the number of people allowed to physically attend Epic Games' high-stakes antitrust bench trial in May over Apple's App Store fees, noting that everyone in attendance must wear masks regardless of whether they're vaccinated.
March 01, 2021
A California federal judge said Monday that a bench trial in Epic Games' antitrust suit over Apple's App Store fees will proceed in person on May 3 despite risks posed by the pandemic, saying "this case is so significant that it warrants the best the judiciary has to give, and the best is in person."
February 09, 2021
A California magistrate judge said that it was "sloppy" for Apple to include nonlawyers on documents titled "Attorney Lists" but said there's no evidence the company was trying to mislead Epic Games as discovery in the app developer's monopolization case steams ahead.
February 01, 2021
A California federal judge ordered Apple's counsel Monday to produce certain internal payment-processing documents in Epic Games' antitrust fight over App Store fees, after characterizing the tech giant's response to the document requests as, "No, we can't do it," and calling it "frustrating and unsatisfactory."
January 29, 2021
It was bad news for Apple all around this past week after a California magistrate ruled that CEO Tim Cook would have to sit for a seven-hour deposition and denied the tech giant's bid to subpoena Samsung in one fell swoop as part of Apple's fight against an antitrust suit over App Store fees.
January 25, 2021
A California magistrate judge told Apple on Monday that he's "struggling" with the tech giant's "almost quirky" request to subpoena Samsung in Epic Games' antitrust fight over App Store fees, noting that Samsung is only one participant in Apple's proposed market, and Apple should already have Samsung-related information from Epic.
January 11, 2021
A California federal court has extended deadlines for a pair of proposed class actions targeting Apple's App Store practices as anti-competitive but preserved a May trial date slated for Epic's claims after Apple suggested it might need to be delayed.
January 08, 2021
A California magistrate judge appeared skeptical Friday of a bid by a proposed class of Apple customers to obtain the tech giant's global revenues and sales data in their antitrust fight over App Store fees, saying he doesn't know if the data "has anything to do with the antitrust issues pleaded."