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Title: Supreme Court denies Apple appeal in e-books price fixing case Post by: HCK on March 08, 2016, 09:00:16 pm Supreme Court denies Apple appeal in e-books price fixing case
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Apple will pay $450 million as a settlement for e-book price fixing after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the company's appeal of a lower court's antitrust ruling.</p><p>The Supreme Court's decision Monday ends Apple's appeal of the antitrust case against the company and five book publishers and upholds a June 2015 antitrust ruling at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. </p><p>Apple had agreed in 2014 to pay a $450 million settlement in the case, brought by the Department of Justice (http://www.macworld.com/article/1166308/doj_files_ebook_price_fixing_lawsuit_against_apple.html) and 33 states and territories in 2012, if the company did not win its appeals. Late last year, the company asked (http://www.macworld.com/article/2984737/legal/apple-wants-to-take-its-e-book-price-fixing-case-to-the-supreme-court.html) the Supreme Court to take up the case. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3041128/legal/supreme-court-denies-apple-appeal-in-e-books-price-fixing-case.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Supreme Court denies Apple appeal in e-books price fixing case (http://www.macworld.com/article/3041128/legal/supreme-court-denies-apple-appeal-in-e-books-price-fixing-case.html#tk.rss_all) |