May 2019 – In what some have characterized as a bit of a surprise ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court this month sided with consumers in holding that they have standing to pursue a proposed antitrust class action against Apple for monopolization. In Apple Inc. v. Pepper, et al., 2019 DJDAR 3951 (May 13, 2019), the court ruled 5-4 that the consumer plaintiffs were not barred by the “indirect purchaser rule” that generally limits standing in federal antitrust cases to direct purchaser plaintiffs only.
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