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Perhaps you mean, once lawyers start smelling money, lawsuits start rolling.
You greatly misunderstand my viewpoint. My skeptical view is strictly based on the points of law, not the size of the companies filing.
I will say that the pile on lawsuit might very well change the dynamic of companies settling rather than fighting. Companies settle lawsuits without admitting guilt basically to make the suit go away, for a number of reasons. If settling simply means that more claimants come out of the woodwork, then that changes the dynamic of simply settling. It will be interesting to see where this goes, not just with Apple, but with other companies with deep pockets.
BTW - you missed a rather important note in the article -
"All three plaintiffs are represented (at least in part) by attorney Max Blecher, who ironically represented three independent booksellers in a recent suit that claimed the "big six" publishers were in a conspiracy with Amazon. Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed that case in December, 2013, citing a lack of evidence and "no plausible motive.""
I don't think that ironically is quite the word to describe the fact that the same lawyer just got kicked out of court when he tried to sue Amazon. Serial lawsuits by lawyers looked for someone, anyone with deep pockets in a major problem in the US legal system right now.
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