On Monday, Judge Denise Cote agreed to the joint request by the ABA and Barnes & Noble to file a friend of the court brief regarding the ebook pricing settlement. But, since the motion from the booksellers itself already “contains five pages of substantive arguments,” and Judge Cote has already set a strict five-page limit on the parties to the ligitation for any responses to the government’s filings, she will not accept any additional material from the ABA and BN. In other words, the arguments they made in asking to file a new brief have been accepted–as the brief itself. […]