Jurors Find Apple Not Liable for Antitrust Violations in Class-Action iPod Lawsuit
After nearly a decade of litigation, it took a panel of eight jurors just several hours to find Apple, Inc. not liable for antitrust violations. The violations relate to iTunes [...]
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Comcast’s Proposed Acquisition of Time Warner Cable Faces Antitrust Issues
Last month Comcast announced its plan to buy rival cable company Time Warner Cable. In addition to being the two largest cable companies in the country, Comcast and TWC are [...]
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Economists File Brief in Opposition of Judge Cote’s Decision in Apple Anti-Trust Case
We have written quite a few blog posts on the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple. Allegedly, Apple is involved in a price-fixing scheme with publishing companies. While the publishers [...]
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Update on Apple E-books Price Fixing Lawsuit: Apple Appeals
Many of our blog posts have dealt with the ongoing Department of Justice v. Apple anti-trust case. This past Tuesday, Apple filed an appeal requesting the Second Circuit US Court [...]
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KFC Files Breach of Contract Lawsuit against Mokena, Illinois Franchise
KFC has filed a lawsuit in Chicago’s federal court against an owner of one of its franchises in Mokena, Illinois. According to the complaint, the franchise’s owner, Aiman Kassar, has [...]
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Oak Brook Coffee Distributor Sues Green Mountain Coffee, Maker of Keurig
A recent blog post discussed Starbucks’ lawsuit with Kraft over the distribution of its bagged coffee. In the post, we mentioned the fact that Starbucks’ bagged coffee sector had grown enormously due [...]
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As Lawsuits Mount over Food Labeling, Some Companies Avoid Litigation
Back in July we wrote a blog post on PepsiCo’s lawsuit over the use of the term “natural” for their popular naked juice product. The post was focused mainly on the difficulty [...]
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Judge Finds Apple Guilty of Price-Fixing: Debate Lingers over Damages
Not long ago, we wrote a blog post about the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple. Allegedly, the company was involved in an e-book price-fixing scheme with several large publishing [...]
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Apple Charged with Conspiracy to Fix E-books Pricing
Yesterday marked the end of the Department of Justice’s fight to stop Apple’s alleged E-books price fixing scheme highlighted in one of our recent blog posts. While Apple maintains its innocence, [...]
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