Late Friday afternoon Judge Denise Cote issued two rulings in the ongoing ebook antitrust case. The first finally grants class certification for the consumers who first sued Apple and the Agency Five publishers back in 2011 and officially sought certification last October, in an 86-page order. (The publishers, of course, settled, and consumers started seeing the $166 settlement funds issued just recently as store credit by Amazon, Nook, and other retailers). The second 59-page ruling denied Apple’s bid to exclude the opinions of the plaintiffs’ damages expert while largely dismissing the opinions of Apple’s own experts. With respect to the class, Judge […]
