APPLE WANTS TO SEAL COURTROOM SO INVESTORS CAN’T HEAR FROM EPIC EXPERT WITNESS

Apple thinks the pension funds, mutual funds and other investors that have made it the most valuable publicly traded company in the world are not sophisticated enough to parse testimony from an expert witness in Epic Games’ antitrust case. Epic’s suit, which accuses Apple of squelching competition by exerting monopoly control of the iphone app distribution and payment systems, is set for a bench trial starting on May 3 before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of Oakland, California.

Public interest is keen, to say the least. Media outlets and plaintiffs’ lawyers who have filed parallel class action claims against Apple petitioned Rogers for access, despite COVID protocols and restrictions on live-streaming of federal court proceedings.

| Reuters