US business groups back class decertification order in Apple iPhone antitrust case
( August 19, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The US Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable urged a US appeals court to affirm a class decertification order in an antitrust case brought by App Store customers because plaintiffs’ own expert agreed that “many millions of putative class members were not injured.” “Even if it were ever permissible to certify a class that contains so many uninjured class members, it would remain impermissible to do so here because the need to winnow out those uninjured class members before judgment means that individual inquiries would predominate over the common questions,” the organizations said.See attached file. ...
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