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NEW YORK - Apple Inc. and five book publishers lost a bid Tuesday to have a private antitrust suit over electronic book pricing dismissed.
US District Judge Denise Cote denied a request by the defendants to throw out the complaint by plaintiffs seeking to represent a nationwide class of consumers who bought e-books from the defendants. They allege that Apple and the publishers violated federal and California state law by agreeing on e-book pricing.
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This would be a class action suit separate from the US Government's suit.
Link to a Boston Globe story.