An end-consumer class of individuals and businesses in California sued Microsoft for monopoly overcharges on the Windows operating system, as well as MS Word and MS Excel applications. The case was originally filed in early 1999, nearly a year before Judge Jackson…
Unocal influenced California regulators to adopt regulations that, unbeknownst to regulators, conferred monopoly power upon Unocal. applEcon quantified the resulting overcharges paid by California consumers, which helped class members to win a settlement of $48…
applEcon was instrumental in preventing a settlement of all private U.S. antitrust claims against Microsoft by showing that the proposed settlement was anticompetitive, inadequate, and unworkable for the impoverished schools it purported to help.
applEcon quantified damages suffered by Sudanese tribesmen from military attacks allegedly facilitated by Talisman Energy by collecting evidence of the tribesmen’s losses of cattle and millet, land and dwellings. We then quantified the dollar value of these losses…
In 2004, The Service Source, Inc. (TSS), filed in a lawsuit federal court for wrongful contract termination damages against Office Depot. TSS claimed that it had a valid contract to refer new customers to Office Depot's business contract program, which provides…