In re Google Play Consumer Antitrust Litigation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation Case No. 21-md-02981-JD

ORDER RE CONSUMER PLAINTIFFS’

CLASS CERTIFICATION MOTION

AND DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO

EXCLUDE EXPERT TESTIMONY

10 Re: Dkt. Nos. 280, 282

(Case No. 20-cv-05761-JD)

13 This action by consumer plaintiffs is one of several antitrust cases about the Google Play Store. These cases have been consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) for centralized proceedings before this Court. Dkt. No. 1. The named plaintiffs allege, on behalf of themselves and multiple putative classes of consumers, that defendant Google illegally monopolized the Android app distribution market with anticompetitive practices in the Google Play Store. Google’s motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiffs’ economics expert is denied. The consumers’ motion for class certification is granted in main part, subject to some adjustments of the named…