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Jody Coultas

Wolters Kluwer (Chicago)

Associate Legal Analyst

Jody Coultas is associate legal analyst at Wolters Kluwer in Chicago. She conducts researches in legal developments in the areas of consumer protection, privacy law, antitrust, and environmental law. She publishes monthly updates to legal research guides that provide explanatory materials on multiple legal topics and is tracking and analyzing pending legislation and amendments to state consumer protection laws. She is developping workflow solutions to provide answers to legal questions in the most convenient way for attorneys. She has edited and assisted in the publishing of a global privacy and security law reference guide. Before joining Wolters Kluwer in 2008, she was law clerk in SmithAmundsen. He holds a J.D. from Chicago Kent College of Law.

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1142 Bulletin

Jody Coultas The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments to determine whether iPhone App Store customers are Apple direct purchasers in order to pursue the Big Tech monopoly claims (Apple / Pepper)

26 November 2018 206

Will High Court allow consumers to pursue Apple Monopoly claims?* The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on November 26 in a suit alleging that the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that iPhone App Store customers were direct purchasers of those apps and had standing to sue Apple for the (...)

Jody Coultas The EU Commission imposes a record fine on a Big Tech company for restrictions on smartphone manufacturers and mobile network operators (Google Android)

18 July 2018 149

Record Google fine over restrictions on Android devices draws strong reactions* A record €4.34 billion (approximately $5 billion) fine was imposed on Google last week by the European Commission (EC) in response to the company’s imposition of restrictions on Android device manufacturers and (...)

Jody Coultas The US FTC reaches a settlement in a case of on-line misleading reviews (iTunes)

26 August 2010 356

FTC Settles Case About Fake iTunes Reviews* In response to an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into suspicious customer reviews posted on an online store’s website, a public relations firm and its sole owner agreed to remove the reviews from the website and refrain from (...)

Jody Coultas The US DoJ and FTC issue new horizontal merger guidelines to reflect merger review process

19 August 2010 431

Horizontal Merger Guidelines Revised To Reflect Merger Review Process* On August 19, 2010, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued the final revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines in order to reflect changes to the agencies’ merger (...)