“Apple Inc., which is trying to stop Samsung Electronics Co. from claiming that a $1 billion trial verdict was tainted by jury misconduct, asked a judge to deny Samsung’s request that she bar communications with jurors,” Joel Rosenblatt reports for Bloomberg.

“Samsung asked U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, on Sept. 21 to prohibit the companies from ‘any further communication with jurors who served during the trial’ until its arguments for seeking a new trial are fully resolved,” Rosenblatt reports. “Apple filed documents supporting its opposition to that request today, after complaining to the judge two days ago that Samsung hasn’t revealed whether it has already contacted jurors.”

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