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A U.S. judge in California on Monday allowed litigation against Alphabet Inc<\/a>'s Google<\/a> to proceed as a consumer class action of 21 million individuals who accuse the company of violating U.S. anti-competition laws in how it runs its Google<\/a> Play app store.
U.S. District Judge James Donato said in a 27-page order that the plaintiffs had established the legal elements of \"commonality\" and other factors to form a class action that alleges anticompetitive business practices.
The class members are Google Play Store<\/a> individual consumers in 12 states, including Ohio, Michigan and Georgia, in addition to American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The case is among an array of pending antitrust actions against Google, and state prosecutors in more than three dozen other states lodged similar claims against Google last year. The plaintiffs' lawyers in the newly certified class action are jointly working with those state enforcers.
Nationwide, plaintiffs have identified aggregate damages of $4.7 billion.
Google has defended its Play Store<\/a> business practices, denying the claims in the case before Donato and others.
A spokesperson for Google said on Monday: \"We're evaluating the ruling, and after that, we'll assess our options.\"
Lawyers for the company at U.S. law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius on Monday did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
In arguing against class-action certification, attorneys for Google said the plaintiffs failed to show how they were harmed, an argument that Donato rejected.
A lead attorney for the class at plaintiffs' firm Bartlit Beck declined to comment.
The class attorneys allege among other things that Google prohibited app developers from steering customers to competitors and used \"misleading warnings to deter customers from downloading apps outside the Google Play Store<\/a>.\"
They claimed that \"but for Google's anticompetitive conduct, plaintiffs and class members would have paid lower prices for apps and in-app purchases and would have benefited from expanded choice.\"
A trial is scheduled to begin in June 2023.
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起诉谷歌应用商店竞争被集体称号
类成员是谷歌在12个州发挥存储个人消费者,包括俄亥俄州、密歇根州和格鲁吉亚,除了美属萨摩亚、关岛、北马里亚纳群岛、波多黎各和美国维尔京群岛。
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一位美国法官周一在加州允许诉讼字母公司的谷歌2100万年继续作为一个消费者集体诉讼人指控该公司违反美国竞争法如何运行它谷歌应用程序商店。
美国地方法院法官James Donato 27页的顺序表示,原告已建立“共性”的法律因素和其他因素形成一个集体诉讼,指控反竞争的商业行为。
类成员谷歌播放存储个人消费者在12个州,包括俄亥俄州、密歇根州和格鲁吉亚,除了美属萨摩亚、关岛、北马里亚纳群岛、波多黎各和美国维尔京群岛。
此案是数组中等待针对谷歌的垄断行为,和州检察官超过三打其他国家提出类似的索赔去年谷歌。新注册的集体诉讼的原告律师共同工作与实施者。
全国范围内,原告已经确定了总损失47亿美元。
谷歌为其辩护玩店商业行为,拒绝索赔Donato之前和其他人。
谷歌一位发言人周一表示:“我们正在评估裁定,在那之后,我们会评估我们的选择。”
美国律师事务所的律师公司摩根路易斯周一负责人没有立即回复记者的置评请求。
在反对集体认证,谷歌的律师说原告未能说明它们是如何伤害,一个论点,Donato拒绝。
类的首席律师,原告公司Bartlit贝克拒绝置评。
类律师声称除此之外,谷歌禁止应用程序开发者转向客户,竞争对手和使用“误导警告阻止客户下载应用程序之外的谷歌玩店”。
他们声称,“但是对于谷歌的反竞争行为,原告和类成员为应用程序和应用程序内购买和支付较低的价格将会受益于扩大选择。”
审判定于2023年6月开始。
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