“A New York district court judge on Friday denied Apple’s request to suspend a ruling that found the company guilty of e-book price fixing while it seeks an appeal,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider.
“Presiding Judge Denise Cote refused Apple’s request to temporarily stay her decision, which would have given the company time to seek an appeal of the penalties laid out by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to in-court reports from The Associated Press,” Campbell reports. “Concluding Friday’s hearing, Judge Cote proposed a new settlement plan that would stagger Apple’s deals with the five book publishers to stymie another price fixing arrangement.”
Campbell reports, “According to The New York Times, the proposal is a less intensive version of the DOJ’s sought guidelines.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully, somewhere along this particular endless gauntlet, Apple will get lucky and run into a judge with a brain.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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I guess she didn’t get the condo in the Bahamas from Apple.
If there were even the tiniest, flimsiest doubt about this judge being biased against Apple, this ruling killed it.
The DOJ has proposed penalties that directly violate the agreements that the five publishers have directly with the DOJ. Yet this judge does not even consider stopping this — just, at best, “staggering it”.
It is common practice in cases like this to stay the penalties until the Appeals Court gets its say. Hell, even in the huge Microsoft Internet Explorer case where Microsoft was found to have illegally used its monopoly position with Windows to illegally extend its presence in browsers by integrating the browser into Windows itself the penalties were stayed until the Appeals Court heard the case. And that case had a much, much bigger impact on the computing world than this case ever will.
So what happens if these draconian measures go into effect, the publishers and Apple are severely negatively affected and Amazon keeps losing money and buying market share back — then the Appeals Court overturns it all? Who wins then? Certainly not the public. Certainly not Apple or the publishers. Only Amazon.
Also since these measures force Apple to force the publishers into contracts directly violating the publishers’ agreements with the DOJ, does the DOJ then get to go after Apple for forcing the publishers to violate those agreements? The DOJ and this judge seem to have that in mind too.
Either this judge is in Amazon’s pocket or she’s a complete egomaniacal idiot. I can’t figure out which. Maybe it’s both.
Consider that the “Judge” is in the DOJ’s pocket.
This is insane.
I think granny needs to change her Depends. Her diaper is full of shit. Come to think of it so is her head. A Slick Willie appointee, go figure.
That judge already had a decision made before the trial. She needs to be reviewed and assessed for:
1: Stupidity for not understanding Facts or Proof.
2: Why, even when glaring looking at factual evidence vindicating Apple, she still ignores the true facts and rules against Apple.
Judge Denise Cote needs to up her intake of Nembutal and go to sleep for a long time. Another brain dead judge who has no comprehension of the underlying meaning of monopoly in a technological online bookstore context in that you can only assert a monopoly if you are in a position of exerting market dominance.
In terms of selling books online the iTunes Store is but a fraction of the size of the Amazon online store so in relative terms Amazon is in a monopolistic position when compared to Apple. The conclusion to be drawn here is that the judge has no understanding of how an online store works, what an agency model is and what predatory pricing within the context of controlling the pricing mechanism in an open online market means.
A failure of the Anerican education system. Perhaps if she read more books instead of dithering around with her dildo she would know how to buy a book on the iBookstore.
“A failure of the Anerican education system.”
Ahem. . .
What a weird way to phrase this statement. Why not say “The SAME district court judge that ruled against Apple backed up her own ruling.” Samsung and Android get to profit for years while having been found guilty of patent infringement, yet Apple can’t sell books during their appeal. The Justice Department is really out to punish Apple. I wonder who put the contract out on Apple and why. This is the real story for any real reporter.
“A New York district court judge on Friday denied Apple’s request to suspend a ruling that found the company guilty of e-book price fixing while it seeks an appeal,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider.”
I think the only fixing and conspiring going on in this case is the DOJ against Apple!
This is like something out of an old Science Fiction book I read.
It was about America in the future. It is a dystopian America, ala 1984 and other dystopias, but it is more like the America we have now, where the totalitarianism is of the creeping sort. They don’t have the jackbooted thugs marching down the street, but the government is in control of so many things that life and freedom were greatly stifled.
At one point they started installing government representatives in companies to make sure that the companies were following government directives.
One of the government cronies says to the owner of a business they’re pressuring… ” What good are laws, if the right people don’t break them ? ”
I looked at our real government saying they were going to install a representative at Apple to oversee Apple’s pricing practices, and it was just too close to this old book to be funny anymore.
“… just too close to this old book to be funny anymore.”
I doubt the book was funny to begin with.
Fwiw, this DoJ vs. Apple scenario (our country and the world) seems to be more and more like the background of Atlas Shrugged.
Read all about it in the Washington Post!
The ruling was in favor of Amazon instead of Apple just because of the former’s lobbying in Washington.
The U.S, goverment is pissed by Apple for not giving a shit about lobbying as much as the rest of the hypocrites in Silicon Valley.
So, it’s a defeat well deserved, I believe, LOL.
I am very impressed with the Federal Appeals court judges in the recently-reported cases regarding the ITC and Samsung infringement. They know their stuff. Smart. Professional. Clear. Logical. They make the ITC folks and regular judges handling Apple cases look like amateur night. Major League athletes versus little league or pee-wee league. Hopefully about now the amateurs are having a “Eureka!” moment. But if not, then luckily we have the voice of reason (so far) at the Appeals Court level.
Some people seem smart in a bookish and analytical sort of way, but are unable to synthesize the big picture w.r.t. new issues. I am trying to explain to myself how the first-line judges could get it so wrong.
I suspect Apple would rather pull out of selling ebooks altogether than include links to other stores. I think this might spell the end for iBooks in the US, the revenue must be tiny in comparison to Apple’s overall revenue and it probably just isn’t worth the hassle. What a ridiculous situation the US judges have created; looking from the outside the US legal system seems completely broken.
Would someone please sue the DOJ for conspiracy as well as anti-trust behavior ?
I think we should support the We the People petition to have the president take a look at this and potentially stop this insanity. He did stop the SEP abuse at the ITC so there could be hope for a change here as well.
I doubt that will do one bit of good.
With every scandal that comes down the pike, this DoJ vs. Apple case appears to be entirely symptomatic of this administration’s history.
Not that I think the previous admin would have acted any differently. Like him or hate him, Rush Limbaugh has stated many times that “… politics is about power. Who has it and who uses it…”. Well, who has it and who uses it is irrelevant. Power corrupts… or, at least, power further corrupts those corruptible to begin with… which IMO is a character element to some degree or other of all those in politics.
After retiring from the court, Judge Denise Cote probably will go works for Amazon as a corporate attorney.
… Just like that fatuous english judge, Sir Scrotum Face, who ruled against Apple then shamelessly scored a consultancy gig at samsung!
Probably Ohitler’s revenge for Steve telling him he is was idiot.
Y’ll gotta learn da Chicago/Kenyan rooooles!
Reading the draconian punishment proposal from the DOJ is truly frightening. This must never happen.
Why can’t Apple’s appeal get fast tracked ( expedited), to cause timely/ immediate intervention of the courts in a severe ( and possibly illegal) interference by the DOJ in Apple’s business practices?
I think the only fixing and conspiring going on is with Judge Cote and the DOJ.
I don’t understand how Apple can sell books if this ruling stays. Maybe the judge can tell us.