Federal Judge Dismisses Messenger App Creator’s Antitrust Suit Against Google

Mealey's (November 18, 2019, 11:27 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Nov. 14 granted Google Inc.’s motion to dismiss California unfair competition law (UCL) and Sherman Act claims in a messenger application developer’s lawsuit alleging that it monopolized application distributionwith Google Play and Android to suppress competition (Paul Joseph Sayre v. Google, Inc., No. 19-02247, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 198622)....