Attorney generals ask US appeals court to allow them to intervene in RealPage antitrust suit
( September 22, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the states of Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Washington asked a US appeals court to overturn an order that blocked them from intervening in in an antitrust case over RealPage rental pricing software. They said that they should not be forced to litigate their related cases against RealPage and several landlords in “the shadow of a vague injunction issued in litigation to which they are not parties.” They also said that the lower court's decision "risks muddying the waters of settled Supreme Court and Sixth Circuit precedent, which counsels that parens patriae actions invoke sovereign and quasi-sovereign interests that transcend those of private parties.”See attached file. ...
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