The tangled web of what the Department of Justice, the states, and the class-action plaintiffs now want from Apple was plainly evident at Friday afternoon’s court hearing, in which Judge Cote heard a number of thorny and complicated issues. Except for a swift dismissal of Apple’s conditional request to stay proceedings (she of course “didn’t believe Apple is likely to succeed on appeal”), Cote deferred the biggest decisions for later in the month. She did not decide on the DOJ’s proposed injunctive relief, contentiously and vociferously objected to by Apple and book publishers, and she did not commit to a trial […]