December 02, 2014
Apple Inc. should pay $351 million in damages for shutting competitors out of the digital music market and driving up iPod prices, attorneys for a class of iPod consumers and resellers told a California federal jury Tuesday at the opening of their antitrust trial.
December 01, 2014
A California federal judge on Monday granted Apple Inc.'s bid to keep its iTunes source code and music licensing price details secret in a class action accusing Apple of monopolizing the digital music market, but the judge scolded the tech giant for demanding secrecy the day before trial.
November 24, 2014
Apple Inc. urged a California federal judge not to tell the jury overseeing a looming antitrust class action trial to consider Apple's motives for updating its iTunes software — which plaintiffs say shut out digital-music competitors — arguing that the jurors should only weigh whether it was a "genuine product improvement."
November 18, 2014
The California federal judge overseeing a class action accusing Apple Inc. of monopolizing the digital music market refused Apple's bid to decertify a class of iPod resellers Tuesday, saying it wouldn't be fair to nix the class so close to its Dec. 2 trial.
November 17, 2014
Apple Inc. asked a California federal court on Monday for partial class decertification in a case over the tech giant's purported monopolization of the digital music market, arguing that commercial iPod resellers should be excluded from the class because their interests haven't been properly represented.
November 12, 2014
Apple Inc. on Tuesday denounced the plaintiffs' attempt to add a reseller class representative in a class action over the company's alleged monopolization of the digital music market, saying allowing the new representative on the eve of trial would severely prejudice the tech giant.
October 29, 2014
The California federal judge presiding over an upcoming class action trial accusing Apple Inc. of monopolizing the market on digital music ruled Wednesday that Apple couldn't pull the jury's heartstrings by saying co-founder Steve Jobs died of cancer, and discouraged the tech titan from calling Jobs a "visionary."
October 03, 2014
A California federal judge scolded Apple Inc. for its "wholly unjustified" request to seal information in the run-up to a class action trial accusing the tech titan of monopolizing the digital-music market, saying Friday she wouldn't redact public information such as iPod prices and the names of retail sellers.
September 26, 2014
Apple Inc. can't exclude the plaintiffs' expert testimony in a consumer antitrust class action accusing the company of monopolizing the digital-music market with a software update that forced customers to buy music from iTunes, according to a Friday ruling in California federal court.
August 13, 2014
Apple Inc. urged a California federal judge on Wednesday to end a consumer antitrust class action accusing Apple of monopolizing the digital-music market, arguing that the plaintiffs have no evidence that a 2006 iTunes software update forced customers to buy more music from iTunes or purchase iPods.