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Apple Ruling Poses Hurdles for Biden’s Vow to Tackle Tech Giants

-- U.S. antitrust officials investigating Apple Inc. face new hurdles after a judge rejected the bulk of Epic Games Inc.’s lawsuit accusing the iPhone maker of thwarting competition laws with its tight grip over the App Store.The Justice Department’s antitrust division has been investigating Apple over practices in the store, a probe that began during the Trump administration amid scrutiny of the country’s dominant tech platforms. The Biden administration is pressing forward with the investigat

Apple Ruling Poses Hurdles for Biden’s Vow to Tackle Tech Giants

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The Biden administration is pressing forward with the investigation.\nAntitrust lawyers say Friday’s decision in the Epic lawsuit, while not fatal to the Justice Department’s inquiry, presents new challenges for the government because the judge said that Epic failed to establish that Apple’s conduct violates the Sherman Act, the federal law used to target monopolies.\n“It raises the bar to any Justice Department lawsuit,” said Joel Mitnick, an antitrust lawyer at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP who isn’t involved in the case. “Apple pretty much got a flat out victory on all the Sherman Act claims.”\nThe Biden administration has vowed to take on consolidation and anticompetitive conduct across the economy. 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