Apple Wins Big with Dismissal of Loot Box Case

By Meredith Murray, GW Law 2L (The following appeared in Esports and the Law, a newsletter produced by Hackney Publications.) In early January, Judge Richard Seeborg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted Apple, Inc.’s Second Motion to Dismiss a class action suit in which the plaintiff argued that the tech company “relie[d] on creating addictive behaviors in kids to generate huge profits” through the in-app purchase of loot boxes. Rebecca Taylor