U.S. court denies Apple’s bid to delay e-books damages trial
“A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected Apple Inc’s bid to delay a July trial to determine damages after the company was found to have colluded to fix the prices of e-books,” Joseph Ax reports for Reuters. “In a brief order, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said the July 14 trial should proceed as scheduled, while Apple separately pursues its appeal of U.S. District Judge Denise Cote’s ruling that it conspired with five publishers to raise e-book prices.”
Ax reports, “Cote ruled last year after a non-jury trial that the conduct of the iPad maker impeded e-book competitors such as Amazon.com Inc.”
MacDailyNews Take: Only because she’s an idiotic puppet of an incompetent and delusional DOJ.
Lady Elaine Fairchilde (left), Judge Denise Cote (right), or vice versa
Ax reports, “More than two dozen state attorneys general joined the Department of Justice in suing Apple over e-books price fixing. Those states, as well as a group of consumers, are seeking up to $840 million in damages. The exact amount of damages will be litigated before Cote at a trial scheduled for July 14.
To paraphrase Scott Turow, the president of The Author’s Guild: The irony of this bites hard: our government has killed real competition in order to save the appearance of competition.
