TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Mar 8, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal from Apple in a case where the company is charged with creating an illegal conspiracy with publishers to raise electronic book prices. The 2010 price hike was in an effort to compete with Amazon.com. Apple has agreed to pay $400 million to be distributed to consumers and $50 million for attorney fees and payments to states who brought the lawsuit, the Associated Press reports.