A trial date has been confirmed by the northern California district court hearing the case between Epic Games and Apple. The litigation will move to a bench trial on Monday, May 3rd, 2021, officially confirming that both parties’ desire for the case to be heard by a judge and not a jury has been granted.
The May 2021 date is earlier than the previously proposed July 2021 window by Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers in order to accommodate the Court’s anticipated summer 2021 jury trial schedule as a result of the pandemic. There are a number of pre-trial arrangements and deadlines that run through February and April, but the real meat of the event will happen sooner than expected. The official filing can be downloaded here.
Here's some of our more recent coverage of the Epic/Apple/Google feud:
• Epic Games claims to be ‘financially sound’ with new concurrency records for Fortnite and EGS
• Fortnite is coming back to iPhone in EU because Europe said so
• Epic and Apple appeals are rejected by the Supreme Court, making the original 2021 ruling final
• Epic wins its lawsuit against Google as jury finds Google Play engaged in monopolist practices
• Project Boston was Activision-Blizzard’s attempt to create a ‘Steam of mobile’ games store
• MMO Business Roundup: NetEase’s Worlds Untold, Embracer, Ubisoft, unionization, and Epic v. Google
There's gobs more - you can go back and read 'em all from the beginning!
source: Courtlistener.com via Gamasutra
