News: App Store antitrust case goes before U.S. Supreme Court

A seven-year old antitrust monopoly lawsuit against Apple’s App Store is scheduled to go before the Supreme Court today, Reuters reports, in a case which is expected to answer a bigger question as to whether consumers can sue the intermediate suppliers and distributors in an online economy for damages in antitrust cases. Apple, for its part, is citing a relatively ancient Supreme Court precedent from 1977 in its defence, which limited damages…