In re Google Play Consumer Antitrust Litigation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 IN RE GOOGLE PLAY STORE MDL Case No. 21-md-02981-JD
ANTITRUST LITIGATION
Member Case Nos. 20-cv-05761-JD, 21-cv-05227-JD
ORDER RE MERITS OPINIONS OF
DR. HAL J. SINGER
In this multidistrict antitrust litigation, several plaintiff groups have challenged Google’s Play Store practices. The Play Store is a marketplace that offers millions of apps for devices that use the Android operating system, such as phones and tablets made by Samsung and other original equipment manufacturers. The apps in the Play Store are created and supplied by independent developers, many of whom charge users a fee to acquire the app or in-app content. A central theme in all of the constituent cases of the MDL action is that Google illegally monopolized the Android app distribution market in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which is said to have caused overcharges to consumers and other injuries. This order…