The plaintiffs, including Figaro news app developer Société du Figaro and Le Geste, an association of French publishers, said in a filing on Wednesday in California federal court that they were voluntarily dismissing their case.
A lawyer for the app developers, Steve Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, told Reuters that they planned to file an action against Apple in France.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland ruled last month that claims in the lawsuit based on foreign sales are barred “without exception.” The judge refused to allow the developers to amend their complaint.
