After well over a year of depositions, documents, argument-trading, and settlements with five publishers, the Department of Justice’s trial against Apple on ebook price fixing finally got underway Monday morning at the Federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan (the majority of journalists, yours truly included, witnessed the proceedings in an overflow room where the sound was frustratingly intermittent, and only fixed before the end of the morning recess.) After some lingering pre-trial motions concerning the redaction status of certain documents, DOJ lawyer Lawrence Buterman presented the government’s case against Apple in opening arguments. Most of what he covered was in line with […]