A California federal attain to a decision on Tuesday disregarded some of Apple’s counterclaims towards Chronicle Video games in its ongoing antitrust battle over Apple’s App Store prices (via Bloomberg).

Apple and Chronicle were in a upright fight since August, when Apple removed Fortnite from the ‌App Store‌ after ‌Chronicle Video games‌ introduced a correct away price option within the app, defying the ‌App Store‌ principles. ‌Chronicle Video games‌ promptly filed a lawsuit towards Apple, accusing the firm of anti-competitive actions.

In September, Apple filed a counter suit to conclude the game maker from the spend of its own price procedure for Fortnite. Apple also accused Chronicle of theft and sought extra monetary damages past breach of contract.

In October, Chronicle filed a circulate sooner than Tuesday’s listening to hunting for the dismissal of Apple’s counterclaims of intentional interference with prospective financial advantage and conversion, together with its punitive damages whisper.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Deem Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granted ‌Chronicle Video games‌’ circulate for judgement, throwing out Apple’s two claims for misplaced ‌App Store‌ prices and other monetary damages.

“That is a excessive-stakes breach of contract case and an antitrust case and that’s all in my opinion,” Gonzalez instructed Apple’s attorneys, in response to Bloomberg. “Chances are you’ll maybe well well maybe’t correct divulge it’s independently wrongful. You in level of truth should have info,” the attain to a decision acknowledged, adding that the relaxation of the breach-of-contract case strikes forward.

Apple instructed Bloomberg that it disagreed with the attain to a decision’s decision, adding that it modified into obvious that Chronicle breached its contract with the firm. Chronicle in October had a preliminary injunction disregarded by the identical attain to a decision, which procedure Fortnite will remain unavailable on the ‌App Store‌ at some level of the lawsuit, assuming that the app remains in violation of the ‌App Store‌ Overview Guidelines. The case continues.