August 23, 2013
The U.S. Department of Justice proposed Friday a narrower injunction against Apple Inc. for its alleged e-book price-fixing that slashes the length of the restrictions on the iPad maker but stood by its call for an external monitor and limits on Apple's dealings in other types of content.
August 14, 2013
States and consumers accusing Apple Inc. of conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices will get their chance to seek hundreds of millions in damages from the iPad maker at trial in May 2014, the judge overseeing the case said Tuesday.
August 09, 2013
A New York federal judge on Friday criticized Apple Inc. for refusing "to express any remorse" after the court found the iPad maker liable for orchestrating a plot to fix e-book prices, and proposed sanctions against Apple that would restrict its future dealings with U.S. publishers with whom the company colluded.
August 08, 2013
A nonprofit consumer advocacy group on Thursday endorsed the injunction the U.S. Department of Justice has proposed against Apple Inc. for allegedly plotting with publishers to raise e-book prices, saying the violations Apple committed as part of the conspiracy were "egregious and unremorseful."
August 07, 2013
Publishers who settled the U.S. Department of Justice's e-book price-fixing claims told a New York federal court on Wednesday that the DOJ's proposed judgment against Apple Inc., the alleged hub of the conspiracy, would modify the deals they already entered without justification.
August 06, 2013
A New York federal judge, weighing whether to put an e-book price-fixing case against Apple Inc. on hold, ordered the computer giant Monday to detail what evidence it believed the court had mishandled at trial.
August 02, 2013
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday proposed barring Apple Inc. from signing distribution deals with any digital media suppliers that would likely force rival retailers to raise prices, after a judge ruled that the company had orchestrated a plot to fix e-book prices.
July 10, 2013
A New York federal court ruled Wednesday that Apple Inc. conspired with book publishers to raise the retail price of e-books, handing a stinging legal blow to the media and technology giant in a closely watched antitrust case brought by the U.S. government.
June 20, 2013
The U.S. Department of Justice "overreached" when it sued Apple Inc. over alleged e-book price-fixing and ignored evidence suggesting introduction of the iPad and iBooks fostered competition among digital book retailers, an Apple attorney said Thursday in the final moments of an antitrust trial in New York.
June 19, 2013
An expert witness for Apple Inc. on Wednesday challenged the U.S. Department of Justice's price-fixing case against the iPad maker, testifying in New York that digital book prices have decreased since it launched the iBookstore in 2010 as the closely watched antitrust trial wound down.