Google has lost its appeal at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals against a jury verdict and a federal court order from last year that required the company to revamp its Play Store policies. The tech giant has been in a long-running legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games, but the new ruling now clears the way for Epic to offer its own app store directly within the Google Play Store.
Judge Margaret McKeown, siding with the lower court’s ruling, wrote: “It is well established that antitrust remedies can and often must proscribe otherwise lawful conduct to unwind and further prevent violators’ anticompetitive activity.”
“The district court had within its basket of remedial powers the authority to require Google to deal with parties harmed by its anticompetitive conduct, including its competitors,” she added.
A jury in December 2023 had ruled in favour of Epic’s claims that Alphabet imposed restrictive Play Store policies and engaged…
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