Zillow seeks another shot at dismissing mortgage tying lawsuit

Zillow is asking a U.S. Federal Court in Washington state to reconsider its ruling allowing an antitrust lawsuit claiming that Zillow created an illegal tying arrangement between its marketing platform and Zillow Home Loans to continue. In late September, the court denied Zillow’s motion to dismiss the Dupuis suit, allowing the plaintiffs’ antitrust, consumer-protection and unjust-enrichment claims to move forward.In a motion filed earlier this month, Zillow asked the court to reconsider this decision.In the filing Zillow argues that the judge relied on previous legal decisions that do not support his conclusions and, in doing so, allowed what the defendant feels is a legally deficient claim to survive. In addition to claiming the ruling were improper, Zillow also claims that the judge fail to require evidence of actual anticompetitive effects in the mortgage market. “The Order does not discuss whether the [complaint] pleads anticompetitive effects; only conduct in the form of ‘platform rules’ or a ‘platform policy,’” the filing states. It remains to be seen if the court will grant Zillow’s motion to reconsider. If the court says there are strong reasons to believe the judge made a...