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Consumers in US antitrust suit over Google search deal make new bid to depose Apple execs

( December 29, 2025, 22:24 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Consumers suing Google over its allegedly anticompetitive agreement with Apple to maintain monopoly over internet search services asked a US court to reverse an order and compel Apple to produce their executives for depositions. Plaintiffs in the proposed class action requested the US District Court for the Northern District of California to alternatively hold a status conference to clarify the scope of the apex doctrine on discovery in the case. Plaintiffs are challenging an order by US Magistrate Sallie Kim quashing the deposition subpoenas of Apple's current and former executives and witnesses Eddy Cue, John Giannandrea, Luca Maestri, Bruce Sewell and Peter Stern. "The Order does not take into account that each of these proposed witnesses has unique...

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