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Federal Judge Tosses CDC s Eviction Moratorium The CDC order must be set aside, said U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in a ruling announced Wednesday, May 5. May 6, 2021, 5am PDT | James Brasuell | A federal judge blocked a nationwide eviction moratorium established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year as Covid-19 lockdowns put millions of renters out of work, report David Yaffe-Bellany and Noah Buhayar. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington said the agency exceeded its authority by issuing a broad moratorium on evictions across all rental properties. The CDC recently extended the moratorium until the end of June.
By Tim Higgins and Brent Kendall In the high-profile court battle set to begin Monday between Apple Inc. and Fortnite creator Epic Games Inc., the judge will grapple with a central question: how to define a market in the digital age. The case pits the world s most valuable publicly traded company, which helped usher in the app economy more than a decade ago, against a privately held videogame maker that wants to topple Apple s so-called walled garden. Epic says the App Store is a monopoly because Apple is the lone distributor of apps to more than one billion iPhones and controls the only payment system for digital services in those apps. That power, Epic says, lets Apple dictate anticompetitive commissions, including a slice as high as 30% of revenue and other terms that harm developers and increase prices. Epic has filed an analyst s estimate that Apple s operating margins for the store were as high as 80% in fiscal 2019, an estimate Apple says is wrong.
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By Brent Kendall WASHINGTON Federal antitrust officials are unlikely to mount a Supreme Court appeal seeking to revive their case alleging leading chip maker Qualcomm Inc. engaged in illegal monopolization, according to people familiar with the matter. The Federal Trade Commission sued Qualcomm during the final days of the Obama administration in 2017, alleging the company used unlawful tactics to maintain a monopoly on cellphone chips. It won a sweeping ruling from a trial court in 2019 that ordered Qualcomm to change its business practices. The two sides fortunes reversed last year when a three-judge panel on the San Francisco-based Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emphatic decision for Qualcomm, saying the FTC hadn t demonstrated that the company s practices were anything other than lawful attempts at profit maximization.