Apple E-Books Antitrust Ruling Upheld by Appeals Court
In her ruling, Cote said Apple lost the case in part because of statements by its deceased founder, Steve Jobs, which government lawyers said showed Apple was targeting e-book leader Amazon.com Inc.
Source: Future Publishing via Getty ImagesApple Inc., the world’s biggest technology company, orchestrated a price-fixing scheme in the electronic-book market, a federal appeals court in New York ruled, upholding a lower-court finding of antitrust violations.
The appeals court, in a sharply split 2-1 decision, let stand a July 2013 ruling by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote that Apple “played a central role” in conspiring with five publishers to fix the prices of electronic books. The differences among the appeals judges may make it more likely that the Supreme Court will take the case if Apple seeks to appeal.