Judge Allows Class-Action Lawsuit on E-Book Pricing to Go Ahead

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By: Julie Bosman | New York Times

A federal judge on Tuesday denied Apple and several major book publishers’ motions to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that accuses the companies of conspiring to control the price of e-books.

In denying the request, Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court in Manhattan wrote that the lawsuit “plausibly alleges that these motives converged to cause the publishing defendants and Apple to join a single conspiracy to eliminate price competition at the retail level and raise the prices consumers would pay for e-books.”































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