A California federal judge agreed Friday to send proposed class antitrust claims against Google to arbitration in a school's lawsuit alleging Google and Apple colluded to avoid competing in the online search business, but he refused to stay antitrust claims against Apple as the arbitration proceeds.
A California crane-operator licensing firm wants to keep its putative class action against Google and Apple out of arbitration, claiming the suit must stay in federal court because it aims to stop the Silicon Valley giants from conspiring to monopolize the search-engine industry.