Apple $100 Million App Store Antitrust Deal Gets Judge’s Nod (1)

Apple Inc. exited one of several major antitrust cases challenging its App Store payment policies, after a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., signed off on a $100 million class action settlement resolving a lawsuit brought by software developers.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the agreement, which includes $26 million in legal fees and $3.5 million in court costs for the attorneys who led the case. Although the pact includes some nonmonetary terms, it doesn’t call for costly structural changes to the way the App Store is run.

The judge, writing June 10 for the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...