In the December hearing on Apple’s appeal of the ebook pricing verdict, Judge Dennis Jacobs was the one leaning quotably in Apple’s direction (he is the judge who suggested that any collusion among publishers trying “to break the hold of a monopolist” in the ebook market was “like all the mice getting together to put a bell on the cat”). Again in a Tuesday hearing on Apple’s separate appeal seeking to disqualify the monitor Michael Bromwich, appointed by Judge Denise Cote to monitor Apple following her injunction, Judge Jacobs expressed doubts about the court-imposed actions. Jacobs suggested the amount Apple was paying the monitor […]