Professor John Newman was the lead drafter of an amicus brief for the Ninth Circuit in Epic Games v. Google. Over twenty other professors and the American Antitrust Institute signed on to the amicus brief supporting Epic Games. The lawsuit filed by Epic Games alleges that Google’s Google Play Store on Android devices is an illegal monopoly. The lawsuit claims that Google violated antitrust laws by making deals to ensure apps are only published through the Play Store, requiring the Play Store to be installed on third-party devices, and charging high in-app purchase fees, limiting competition from third-party app stores.
Newman’s scholarly articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, George Washington Law Review, and other leading academic journals. His commentary on antitrust enforcement has been featured by a variety of popular media outlets, including CBS News, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times of London, NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, and more. He has been invited to testify before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights; to submit commentary to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law; to speak before the Federal Trade Commission; to brief U.S. Senate policy staff, and to deliver lectures at leading academic institutions and conferences within the United States and abroad.
