In a series of court filings last week, Apple officially moved to halt the ‘”unconstitutional” compliance monitoring imposed as part of the government’s e-book antitrust lawsuit, while the Department of Justice defended the monitor’s actions and urged that the oversight be upheld, reports “AppleInsider.”
Michael Bromwich, the third-party monitor assigned to the case by presiding Judge Denise Cote, “is conducting a roving investigation that is interfering with Apple’s business operations, risking the public disclosure of privileged and confidential information, and imposing substantial and rapidly escalating costs on Apple that it will never be able to recover,” Apple’s lead appeals counsel Theodore Boutrous argued in the company’s motion. Read more at http://tinyurl.com/kaz7ugf .