March 25, 2014
E-book purchasers will begin receiving payments this week from a $166 million settlement between 33 states and five major publishers over e-book price-fixing, multiple state attorneys general announced on Tuesday.
March 17, 2014
Apple Inc. argued Friday in New York federal court that it did not waive its right to try to move the remainder of an e-books price-fixing case back to Texas and California, emphasizing that the damages claims by consumers and a group of state attorneys general should be remanded.
March 07, 2014
A pair of economists told the Second Circuit on Tuesday that the district court overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice's e-books price-fixing case against Apple Inc. ignored key economic evidence in a decision that threatened to thwart the use of common, pro-competitive contract clauses.
February 18, 2014
Copyright attorney and eMusic co-founder Bob Kohn on Friday warned the Second Circuit that a New York federal court's ruling that Apple Inc. and a group of book publishers conspired to raise the price of e-books is "fundamentally at odds with basic tenets of modern antitrust law."
February 10, 2014
Simon & Schuster Inc. on Friday told the Second Circuit that a lower court's injunction against Apple Inc. for conspiring to fix prices on e-books unfairly altered the terms of a deal the publishing giant had previously struck with government prosecutors to elude litigation in the same matter.
February 03, 2014
Apple Inc. on Friday hit back at the U.S. Department of Justice's request to reinstate a court-appointed antitrust monitor while the company appeals a ruling that it helped fix e-book prices, telling the Second Circuit that the stay was crucial to protect its business.