In re: Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation
Case Number:
3:21-md-02981
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action, Multi-district Litigation
Judge:
Firms
- Altair Law
- Gustafson Gluek
- Davis Polk
- Spiro Harrison
- A&O Shearman
- McDermott Will & Schulte
- Kaplan Fox
- Cravath Swaine
- Forman Watkins
- Tostrud Law Group
- Zelle LLP
- Gibson Dunn
- Korein Tillery
- Pritzker Levine
- Cuneo Gilbert
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Faegre Drinker
- Fox Rothschild
- Morgan Lewis
- Willkie Farr
- Venable LLP
- Winston & Strawn
- Barrett Law Group
- Benedict Law Group
- Sidley Austin
- Foley & Lardner
- Kwun Bhansali
- Hadsell Stormer
- Ellis George
- Hagens Berman
- Covington & Burling
- Hueston Hennigan
- Frederick M. Lehrer Attorney at Law
- Hogan Lovells
- Scott&Scott
- Mantese Honigman
- Keller Rohrback
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Williams & Connolly
- Paul Hastings
- Wilson Sonsini
- Hausfeld LLP
- Stradling Yocca
- Bartlit Beck
- Munger Tolles
- McManis Faulkner
- Cotchett Pitre
- Paul Weiss
- Dechert LLP
- Quinn Emanuel
- Milberg Coleman
- Annaguey McCann
- Keker Van Nest & Peters
- Sperling Kenny
- Berger Montague
- Kirby McInerney
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Saveri & Saveri
- Milbank LLP
Companies
- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- American Antitrust Institute
- Hulu LLC
- Sony Group Corp.
- Riot Games Inc.
- Match Group LLC
- Epic Games Inc.
- Netflix Inc.
- Spotify Technology SA
- Microsoft Corp.
- TikTok Inc.
- Apple Inc.
- Motorola Mobility LLC
- Google LLC
- Nintendo Co. Ltd.
- Bumble Inc.
- EE Ltd.
- Big Fish Games Inc.
- T-Mobile US Inc.
- Valve Corp.
- Activision Blizzard Inc.
- Alphabet Inc.
- Electronic Arts Inc.
- Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
- Amazon.com Inc.
- Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.
- The Walt Disney Co.
Government Agencies
- State of Maryland
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- State of Tennessee
- State of Nevada
- State of Indiana
- State of Michigan
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
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