The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to take up the casino-app cases in April or May, and a ruling is expected by the end of the year, lawyers for Amazon at Perkins Coie told U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik.
Hundreds of millions of dollars or more in alleged damages could be at stake in the cases. A California federal judge in 2022 said consumers could pursue claims against Google, Apple and Facebook over their roles in processing payments for in-app transactions.
The litigation could set new precedent on the scope of Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act of 1996. The provision offers some protections to tech companies that host content on their websites that they did not create.