Apple may have settled its ongoing litigation over ebook pricing with the plaintiff states and consumer class earlier this summer (pending the outcome of the company’s appeal of Judge Cote’s 2013 ruling), but some of the same issues return in a new, derivative lawsuit launched by a single shareholder last Thursday in Santa Clara County California State Court. That complaint claims that Apple ceo Tim Cook and other executives, including Eddy Cue and directors Al Gore and Bill Campbell, “bear responsibility for ensnaring Apple in a multi-year anticompetitive scheme” and engaged in “breach of fiduciary duties, waste of corporate assets, and unjust […]
