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Judge Cote has been vindicated and deserves an apology from many, including some of the so-called legal experts in the media, who declared she was biased and didn’t know what she was doing in this case.
The cert denial also shows that all those who used Leegin as a rallying cry to defend Apple wrongly applied that case to Apple. Either they couldn’t see or refused to admit that Apple’s role was not really analogous to what Leegin did. While not exactly an apples & oranges difference, the roles and behavior of the two companies were sufficiently different to have separated them legally.
As for the monetary settlement, that’s of little importance to me, and I’ll probably only get a few dollars out of it. What’s important is to prevent the next big company from trying to manipulate market prices through widespread collusion with suppliers
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