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Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. ___ (2021), [ 1 ] was a U.S. Supreme Court decision related to the nature of computer code and copyright law. The dispute centered on the use of parts of the Java programming language 's application programming interfaces (APIs) and about 11,000 lines of source code, which are owned by Oracle (through subsidiary ...
Laws applied. Sherman Antitrust Act. United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), was a landmarkAmerican antitrust lawcase at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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In May 2004, a class-action lawsuit accused Microsoft of overcharging customers in the state of California. The company settled the case for $1.1 billion, and a California court ordered Microsoft to pay an additional $258 million in legal fees (including over $3,000 per hour for the lead attorney in the case, more than $2,000 per hour for ...
Largest consumer antitrust class action settlement in U.S. history. The payment card interchange fee and merchant discount antitrust litigationis a United States class-action lawsuitfiled in 2005 by merchants and trade associations against Visa, Mastercard, and numerous financial institutions that issue payment cards.
The period for class action review and objects was put on an accelerated schedule, with objections to be submitted by January 28, 2010, and fairness hearings on February 18. [12] While the volume of complaints were fewer compared to the initial settlement, they remained critical of the settlement terms.
Google, Inc. v. American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, Inc.[ 18 ] was a decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that challenged the legality of Google's AdWords program. The court concluded that, pending the outcome of a jury trial, Google AdWords may be in violation of trademark law.
Wal-Mart v. Dukes, 564 U.S. 338 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a group of roughly 1.5 million women could not be certified as a valid class of plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit for employment discrimination against Walmart. Lead plaintiff Betty Dukes, a Walmart employee, and others alleged gender ...