A court in California grants Google’s store competition case class-action designation
Plaintiffs suggest a $4.7 billion damage
For a while now, the eyes of the tech insiders have been directed towards Google’s ongoing lawsuit against the users of the tech giant’s proprietary app store. There has recently been considerable development in the situation, because a court in California has granted the case a class-action designation.
The California judge allowed the litigation to proceed with the case as a class-action lawsuit of 21 million individuals, who have joined their forces to accuse the company of unlawful and anti-competitive behavior.
US District Judge James Donato based his verdict in a 27-page order, where he described the legal elements of ‘commonality’ and other factors to form a class action that alleges anti-competitive business practices.
Class action stands for a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group. In this particular situation, the group consists of Google App Store users in 12 states, including Ohio, Michigan and Georgia, in addition to American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
This is just one of the cases currently targeting Google. The aggregated damages identified by plaintiffs reaches $4.7 billion.
