Apple Beats Appeal of Covid App’s $200 Billion Antitrust Case

Apple Inc. on Friday defeated an antitrust case brought by the maker of Covid-19 contact tracing software that sued the tech giant for up to $200 billion over access to its iOS App Store.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a decision tossing the lawsuit filed by Coronavirus Reporter and other developers that had unsuccessfully sought App Store access for a separate blockchain-related app called Bitcoin Lottery.

Judge Ronald M. Gould, writing for a three-judge panel, said the suit’s “scattershot” claims failed to define any market that could have been warped by Apple’s general ban on ...