Apple beats class certification bid by iPhone buyers

Charley Connor

20 February 2018

Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone (Credit: Blake Patterson)

Plaintiffs who accuse Apple of violating antitrust laws through its sale of AT&T-locked iPhones failed to provide sufficient "properly analysed, reliable evidence" to support class certification, a California federal judge held last week.

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Charley Connor

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