{"id":118711,"date":"2020-09-30T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371110"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:05:00","slug":"epic-and-apple-dont-want-fortnite-dispute-settled-by-a-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/epic-and-apple-dont-want-fortnite-dispute-settled-by-a-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic and Apple don’t want Fortnite dispute settled by a jury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games will be settled by a judge if both companies get their way, with the warring pair keen to avoid a jury trial.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers suggested the case should be put before a jury<\/a>, and talked about the importance of “understanding what real people think.”<\/p>\n

Since then, however, both Epic and Apple have discussed the matter, and have agreed the case should be “tried by the Court, and not by a jury.”<\/p>\n

Both companies outlined their position in a filing submitted to the Northern California court handling the case, spotted by MacRumors<\/a>, and seem to have finally found some common ground.<\/p>\n

“Epic and Apple have met and conferred, and the parties agree that Epic’s claims and Apple’s counterclaims should be tried by the Court, and not by a jury,” reads the filing. <\/p>\n

“Therefore, with Epic’s consent, Apple hereby withdraws its demand for a jury trial pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 38(d). The parties respectfully request that the case (including any claims and counterclaims) proceed to a bench trial on a schedule determined by the Court.”<\/p>\n

As it stands, Rogers has found that Apple is well within its rights to ban Fortnite <\/em>from the App Store, and is estimating the case as a whole will be heard in July 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The legal dispute between Apple and Epic Games will be settled by a judge if both companies get their way, with the warring pair keen to avoid a jury trial. Earlier this week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers suggested the case should be put before a jury, and talked about the importance of “understanding what real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}