Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home from Monday, November 26, 2018.

I'm Chris Higgins in for Brian McCullough.

Today, Apple heads to the Supreme Court over antitrust concerns about its app store.

Facebook's internal documents are seized by the British Parliament.

What's behind the resurgence of Atari?

The human story of Black Friday inside Amazon's fulfillment centers, and finally

Lenny, a chatbot designed to frustrate telemarketers.

Let's get started. Today the US Supreme Court considered whether to allow a

class action lawsuit involving Apple and antitrust regulations to proceed.

It's an escalation of an ongoing legal battle started in 2011 when lead plaintiff Robert Pepper of Chicago, an App Store user, filed suit in California federal court. Pepper and his group said that Apple's App Store created a monopoly for

commercial iPhone apps and then abused that monopoly by requiring software

developers to give Apple 30% of their revenue when selling their apps on the

store. This case has been making its way through of their

this case has been making its way through the courts for quite some time now. At one point a federal judge in Oakland, California dismissed the suit saying that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue.

This was based on a 1977 suit. the suit, saying that the plaintiffs did not have standing to sue.

This was based on a 1977 Supreme Court ruling that said only people who had directly suffered damages

by being overcharged due to anti-competitive conduct, had standing to sue.

That Oakland Court's finding was that because the end customers were not themselves

app developers who were forced to give 30% of the revenue to Apple,

they lacked legal standing to sue.

And that's a central issue in this case. Pepper suggests that the 30% is effectively

passed along to consumers like him, which does give them grounds to sue.

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