Winston & Strawn and its client Musi Inc. should be sanctioned for including false allegations in a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc. of breach of contract by removing an app from the App Store, Apple told a federal California judge, reports Bloomberg Law.
In October 2024 Musi, a free music-streaming app only available on iPhone, sued Apple, arguing that Apple breached Musi’s developer agreement by abruptly removing the app from its App Store for no good reason.
The company said Apple decided to remove Musi from the App Store based on allegedly “unsubstantiated” claims from YouTube that Musi was infringing on YouTube’s intellectual property. The removal came, Musi alleged, based on a five-word complaint from YouTube that simply said Musi was “violating YouTube terms of service”—without ever explaining how.
Musi’s first amended complaint advanced a “baseless conspiracy theory” that Apple plotted to eliminate the music-streaming app to benefit “friends” in the music industry despite discovery conducted before it was filed disproving the claim, Apple said in is motion for sanctions filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Apple asked Judge Eumi K. Lee to dismiss or strike Musi’s complaint and order Winston & Strawn to pay Apple’s legal fees related to the sanctions motion.
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