U.S. Wants to End Apple E-Book Antitrust Compliance Monitoring
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The U.S. Justice Department said it’s satisfied Apple Inc. put in place reforms to comply with antitrust laws even though it fought with a monitor appointed to oversee its sale of electronic books.
The government recommended in a letter to the federal judge in Manhattan handling the case that the compliance monitoring not be extended. It said Apple has “now implemented meaningful antitrust policies, procedures, and training programs that were obviously lacking at the time Apple participated in and facilitated the horizontal price-fixing conspiracy found by this court.”