All Discovery in Antitrust Suit vs. Apple Referred to Magistrate Judge

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California in Oakland signed an order Tuesday (docket 4:22-cv-04437) automatically referring all discovery matters to U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson in the class action brought against Apple by a group of French-resident iOS developers. Individual developers Figaro and L’Equipe, plus Le Geste, an association of publishers of online content and services, alleged in a first amended complaint Dec. 2 that Apple “has willfully excluded competition and usurped the market” for iOS app-distribution and in-app purchase services.