NEW YORK — Apple must cooperate with a court-appointed monitor after a judge found the technology giant colluded with book publishers in 2010 to raise electronic book prices, a federal appeals court said Thursday. U.S. District Judge Denise Cote appointed Bromwich as monitor in October 2013 after a civil trial weeks earlier led her to conclude that Apple had violated antitrust laws when it entered the electronic book market. In court papers, Apple argued that Bromwich launched a “broad and amorphous inquisition” that was interfering with its business operations and imposing substantial and rapidly escalating costs on it. “It is certainly remarkable that an arm of the court would litigate on the side of a party in connection with an application to the court he serves,” Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel that heard oral arguments earlier this year. In a separate concurring opinion, Judge Jesse Furman criticized Apple for failing to take advantage of a “sensible and effective process” the trial judge had set up to swiftly resolve any objections to the monitor’s actions.

 

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