LOS ANGELES— Andrea Weiss Jeffries, an attorney representing ICM in Manwin v. ICM Registry, an antitrust lawsuit brought last year by Manwin and Digital Playground against ICM and ICANN, has filed a response to Manwin's First Amended Complaint of Feb. 17. The filing was on May 8, the last day given by the court for the response.
"Exclusionary or anticompetitive conduct is an indispensable element of any Sherman Act claim," states Jeffries in the culmination of her 25-page rebuttal. "Having failed to make this showing with respect to either ICM or ICANN, Plaintiffs should not be permitted to proceed with this case."
The plaintiffs now have 30 days, up to and including June 8, to file an opposition to this response to the First Amended Complaint, and then ICM and ICANN will have until June 29 to file replies in support of their motions. The court will hear oral arguments on the motions on July 30 at 1:30 p.m., the court has ordered.
The reply to the Amended Complaint is here.
