UK Tribunal Lets Part of Amazon and Apple Marketplace Class Action Proceed

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Britain's Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled on September 28 that part of a consumer class action against Amazon.com, Inc. and Apple Inc. can proceed, concerning a 2018 arrangement that allegedly restricted which sellers could list Apple and Beats products on Amazon's UK marketplace. The surviving portion of the claim is valued at between £289 million and £306 million, including interest, a fraction of Amazon's roughly $2.7 trillion valuation and Apple's close to $4.9 trillion. The tribunal narrowed the case considerably, throwing out claims covering Apple products bought directly from Apple or from other retailers, with the judge describing the reasoning behind them as a complex and speculative theory of harm. The claims allowed through target the marketplace itself, which Judge Kelyn Bacon called plausible, credible and grounded in the facts, and this is the smaller version of the case brought on a second attempt after an earlier filing was refused last year over concerns about the proposed class representative and its funding. Apple said it strongly disagrees with the claims, and the certification only means the case will now be heard, arriving days after a United States jury ordered the company to pay about $5.7 billion in an unrelated patent case.

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UK tribunal allows part of a consumer class action over Apple/Beats seller restrictions on Amazon's UK marketplace to proceed, exposing Apple to up to ~£306M in claims.

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The surviving claim targets Amazon's UK marketplace over the 2018 arrangement restricting which sellers could list Apple and Beats products, so the case will now be heard.

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