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US states on final approach for Google Play antitrust suit

By Mike Swift and Max Fillion ( March 23, 2021, 23:21 GMT | Insight) -- A group of US state attorneys general are completing preparations to open a third antitrust front against Google, aiming to file litigation as soon as May alleging that the Google Play app store violated US antitrust law through its 30 percent fee on Android app purchases and through other app store policies. The case is expected to be filed in four to six weeks and will be led by Utah, North Carolina, Tennessee and New York. It may well be filed in federal court in San Francisco, where a group of Google Play cases are already in front of US District Judge James Donato.A group of US state attorneys general are completing preparations to open a third antitrust front against Google, aiming to file litigation as soon as May alleging that the Google Play app store violated US antitrust law through its 30 percent fee on Android app purchases and through other app store policies....

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