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Google's legal fight with Epic Games, US states over Android apps slowly takes shape

By Michael Acton and Amy Miller ( August 3, 2021, 16:50 GMT | Comment) -- Google’s US courtroom battle with Epic Games over its alleged app market abuses has taken a remarkably different route from Epic Games’ Apple lawsuit, filed on the same day last year and litigating issues that are — on the surface — similar. In a stark example of how much a judge can influence the course of an antitrust lawsuit, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers pushed ahead to a speedy bench trial in the Apple case, while Judge James Donato at the same California court has proposed a more methodical approach to the Google suit, and is pushing for a jury trial. In the meantime, a group of state attorneys general have filed their own lawsuit against Google, adding further depth to an already crowded field of plaintiffs and teeing up a late summer debate over how the case will proceed.Google’s US courtroom battle with Epic Games over its alleged app market abuses has taken a remarkably different route from Epic Games’ Apple lawsuit, filed the same day last year and litigating issues which are — on the surface — similar....

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