
After frequent Apple foe Hagens Berman pressed forward without the main complainant in a lawsuit alleging Apple and Amazon conspired to inflate hardware prices, the judge overseeing the trial has dismissed the case.
Apple and Amazon have been accused of price-fixing
The class action suit was originally filed in November 2022 by Hagens Berman Law, the same firm that handled the 2014 ebook price-fixing suit, and others. The claim was that Apple and Amazon’s 2018 deal to let the retailer stock iPhones and iPads, saw third-party resellers being dropped.
Now according to Reuters, the case has been dismissed by Seattle federal court judge Kymberly Evanson. The plaintiffs have been allowed to resubmit an amended suit, but the case was dismissed for now in part because of the actions of the lawyers.
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