Google may face more trouble in the US for Play Store ‘rules’, here’s why

A lawsuit against Google, which alleges that the company ‘unlawfully’ preserves Play Store monopoly thereby violating US anti-competition laws, will now proceed as a consumer class action of 21 million individuals.

As per a report by news agency Reuters, the presiding judge said in a 27-page order that the plaintiffs had established the legal elements of “commonality” and other factors to form a class action. A class action, or a class-action lawsuit, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people represented by a member or members of that group.

The class members are Google Play Store individual consumers in 12 states, including Ohio, Michigan and Georgia, in addition to American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, the report says. They have sought damages of $4.7 billion.