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Megan Gray

@megangra
44 posts
2025-11-22
Closing argument in Google Adtech today: TL;DR judge basically had no questions (and no bladder), prolly means no divest.
2025-11-22 View on X
New York Times

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing

Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is on the clock.  —  The federal judge, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia …

2025-07-05
wow, these Trump immunity letters to Google/Apple/etc. are wild. Oracle wasn't even a letter recipient until much later. But Amazon is here, so is AWS the hosting provider? Interesting to see Akamai, Digital Realty Trust, Fastly, T-Mobile US, and LG Electronics.
2025-07-05 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will. Dean Baker / @deanbaker13 : Trump says he can clai...

2025-07-04
wow, these Trump immunity letters to Google/Apple/etc. are wild. Oracle wasn't even a letter recipient until much later. But Amazon is here, so is AWS the hosting provider? Interesting to see Akamai, Digital Realty Trust, Fastly, T-Mobile US, and LG Electronics.
2025-07-04 View on X
New York Times

FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban

In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

2025-06-05
whoa, no stay for Apple in the Epic Games case (ps, I predicted that alongside expedited briefing)
2025-06-05 View on X
Reuters

Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition

Apple (AAPL.O) has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker …

2025-05-18
holy shit — Apple tells Epic that it will not put Fortnight into App Store until Ninth Circ rules on stay request. Last I saw, YGR had no such asterick on her court decision. [image]
2025-05-18 View on X
9to5Mac

Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court

I'm guessing that even if YGR sides with Epic, Apple could get that overriden on appeal, and Fortnite won't be returning to the App Store anytime soon. … X: @epicnewsroom : Yesterd...

@lukasagross and yet that is not the reason that Apple gave
2025-05-18 View on X
9to5Mac

Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court

I'm guessing that even if YGR sides with Epic, Apple could get that overriden on appeal, and Fortnite won't be returning to the App Store anytime soon. … X: @epicnewsroom : Yesterd...

2025-05-17
holy shit — Apple tells Epic that it will not put Fortnight into App Store until Ninth Circ rules on stay request. Last I saw, YGR had no such asterick on her court decision. [image]
2025-05-17 View on X
9to5Mac

Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court

As reported by Mark Gurman, Epic's petition reads: … In the document, Epic also makes a point to mention Tim Cook's testimony at trial, in which he said:

holy shit — Apple tells Epic that it will not put Fortnight into App Store until Ninth Circ rules on stay request. Last I saw, YGR had no such asterick on her court decision. [image]
2025-05-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative marketplaces in the EU and says it asked Epic Sweden to resubmit the app update excluding the US App Store

I'm guessing that even if YGR sides with Epic, Apple could get that overriden on appeal, and Fortnite won't be returning to the App Store anytime soon. … Jeff Johnson / @lapcatsoft...

@lukasagross and yet that is not the reason that Apple gave
2025-05-17 View on X
9to5Mac

Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court

As reported by Mark Gurman, Epic's petition reads: … In the document, Epic also makes a point to mention Tim Cook's testimony at trial, in which he said:

2025-05-08
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2025-05-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Eddy Cue's disclosure of Apple's plan to shift its browser to AI systems had a clear goal: downplaying the importance of Apple's existing Google Search deal

Apple Inc. made an unusual pitch in its bid to save a lucrative search partnership with Alphabet Inc.'s Google …

2025-04-23
Absurd that this whole examination of the OpenAI witness, we have to use a code name for the OpenAI search engine partner and how it was inferior results to Google - everyone knows it's Microsoft/Bing.
2025-04-23 View on X
Bloomberg

US v. Google: OpenAI's ChatGPT chief Nick Turley says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off

OpenAI would be interested in buying Google's Chrome browser if a federal court orders it to be spun off, the head of ChatGPT said in a court hearing Tuesday.

2025-04-22
Google Search antitrust remedies trial: Stunningly powerful opening argument from DOJ/states. So, so good, custom-tailored to judge decision, specific precedent, pre-buttal to Google arguments - and even crafted w comms-advocacy principles.
2025-04-22 View on X
Washington Post

The US v. Google remedies trial opens with the DOJ arguing that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies “extreme”

The remedies trial opens in Washington with the government pushing to break up the company through measures that Google lawyers deem “extreme.”

2025-02-25
Of course Apple will appeal the contempt decision. But that is VERY challenging to win, much higher burden of proof than a normal appeal. Normal appeal is “clear error” for factual finding & “de novo” for legal findings. Contempt appeal is “clear and convincing” standard.
2025-02-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations

Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday …

2025-02-04
Judge Mehta ain't messing around. Denied Apple's motion for stay, didn't even wait for DOJ to oppose. Next up, appellate court.
2025-02-04 View on X
The Verge

A US district court judge denies Apple's emergency motion to halt the remedy phase of DOJ v. Google, saying that Apple hasn't demonstrated satisfactory reasons

Umar Shakir / The Verge :

Wtf only disclose now. Case filed 2020
2025-02-04 View on X
The Verge

A US district court judge denies Apple's emergency motion to halt the remedy phase of DOJ v. Google, saying that Apple hasn't demonstrated satisfactory reasons

Umar Shakir / The Verge :

2024-10-01
whoa! Apple conveniently files a motion to SET ASIDE JUDGMENT in the Epic Games case, turns out all the law has changed didntyaknow [image]
2024-10-01 View on X
Reuters

Apple asks a US judge to throw out or narrow an App Store anti-steering injunction, saying rulings in two unrelated cases undermine an order that Epic had won

Apple (AAPL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out or narrow a decision governing its lucrative App Store, saying …

2024-08-15
Google: the network effects were not directlycaused by the anticompetitive conduct, therefore you cannot try to remediate that aspect/harm.
2024-08-15 View on X
The Verge

Epic v. Google: in the final hearing after Epic's antitrust win, the judge says he'll “tear the barriers down” on the Play Store, but won't “micromanage” Google

Judge James Donato just made it crystal-clear: Google will pay.

!!!! Judge mandating “technical committee” (ala Microsoft antitrust settlement) as part of remedy for Android App Store in Epic v Google case. This TC, comprised of 3 people, is to problem-solve and monitor compliance.....
2024-08-15 View on X
The Verge

Epic v. Google: in the final hearing after Epic's antitrust win, the judge says he'll “tear the barriers down” on the Play Store, but won't “micromanage” Google

Judge James Donato just made it crystal-clear: Google will pay.

Judge to Google: “if you don't like the Technical Committee cuz it is too micromanagey, then you give me an idea - cuz just throwing up hands and saying it's too complicated - that ain't gonna cut it. You are entrenched monopolist who has taken advantages of network effects.”
2024-08-15 View on X
The Verge

Epic v. Google: in the final hearing after Epic's antitrust win, the judge says he'll “tear the barriers down” on the Play Store, but won't “micromanage” Google

Judge James Donato just made it crystal-clear: Google will pay.

2024-08-06
oooo we already have next steps in the Google Search case: “The parties shall submit a Joint Status Report by September 4, 2024, which proposes a schedule for proceedings regarding remedies. There will be a Status Conference on September 6, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. in Courtroom 10.”
2024-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers

Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …