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Class Action Cases Against Microsoft

Antitrust, Liability, Causation, Damages, Class Certification for Plaintiffs

U.S. vs. Microsoft concluded that Microsoft had exercised power over PC operating system prices, but awarded no damages to consumers. Consumers in seven states received over $1.6 billion in settlements from Microsoft from antitrust suits that relied on applEcon for its liability and damages expertise. applEcon’s first and largest state case on behalf of consumers […]

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22 July 2026

applEcon welcomes new affiliate expert Frederick (Rick) Warren-Boulton

applEcon is pleased to announce that Frederick (Rick) Warren-Boulton has joined the firm as an affiliated expert. Dr. Warren-Boulton is an internationally recognized economics expert in the fields of antitrust and industrial organization, particularly in the economics of vertical restraints, mergers, price fixing, exclusion, and monopolization, and has testified and published extensively on those issues. […]

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7 April 2026

applEcon welcomes new affiliate expert David Neumark

applEcon is pleased to announce that Professor David Neumark has joined as an affiliated expert. Professor Neumark serves as a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading researcher on labor market discrimination and has helped develop methods to […]

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Josh Palmer, PhD

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Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Berkeley
B.A. in Economics and Psychology, University of Michigan
Josh began working at applEcon in 2002 as a staff analyst. His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics, and Applied Microeconomics.

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