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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I think that 2) is the biggie, that's where Judge Cote deviated the most from the current case law and where I think that the case is most likely to be overturned.
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Even if that's true, Cote wrote in her opinion that even if the evidence did not support a per se violation, the case would come out the same under the rule of reason standard, because Apple cannot show any pro-competitive effect of the publisher agreements.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but Apple has also filed to move the damages trial for the consumer lawsuit to California and for the states' trial to Western Texas.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...ges-trial.html
Oh, and any time Apple claims that their entrance into the market caused lower prices, I'll just show the prices I paid before 4/1/2010, and the prices of the same books 1-2 years later. I would have paid 2-3 times as much.