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Re:Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th by gpm on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:36PM (#24192469)
> Epic could have sued Apple without the theatrics and they'd have been fine.

Without the "theatrics" epic would not have had standing to sue and the case would have been dismissed.

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Re:Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th by Despegar on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:46PM (#24192564)
As a party to the developer agreement with Apple they clearly have standing to sue. And since one of the counts in their complaint is that they're being denied use of an "essential facility", they wouldn't even need to have a contractual relationship to have standing to sue.
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Re:Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th by zucker42 on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:45PM (#24192554)
Is this true? Can't you claim standing based on something you would do except for an illegal contract or illegal law?
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Re:Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th by gpm on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:57PM (#24192683)
I don't have a good quick cite for you on contract law, but here's an example for criminal law

https://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/05/07/judge-...

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