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U.S. v. APPLE, INC.

Nos. 13-3741-cv, 13-3748-cv, 13-3783-cv, 13-3857-cv, 13-3864-cv, 13-3867-cv.

791 F.3d 290 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, State of Texas, State of Connecticut, State of Alabama, State of Alaska, State of Arizona, State of Arkansas, State of Colorado, State of Delaware, State of Idaho, State of Illinois, State of Indiana, State of Iowa, State of Kansas, State of Louisiana, State of Maryland, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Michigan, State of Missouri, State of Nebraska, State of New Mexico, State of New York, State of North Dakota, State of Ohio, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of South Dakota, State of Tennessee, State of Utah, State of Vermont, Commonwealth of Virginia, State of West Virginia, State of Wisconsin, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and District of Columbia, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. APPLE, INC., Simon & Schuster, Inc., Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, DBA Macmillan, Simon & Schuster Digital Sales, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., The Penguin Group, a Division of Pearson PLC, Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 30, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Malcolm L. Stewart , Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, William J. Baer , Assistant Nicholson, David Seidman , Finnuala K. Tessier , Lawrence B. Buterman , Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Washington, DC, for the United States.

George Jepsen , Attorney General of Connecticut, W. Joseph Nielsen , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, Greg Abbott , Attorney General of Texas, Daniel T. Hodge , First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, John Scott , Deputy Attorney General of Texas, Jonathan F. Mitchell , Solicitor General of Texas, Andrew Oldham , Deputy Solicitor General of Texas, John T. Prud'homme , Kim van Winkle , Eric Lipman , Assistant Attorneys General, Office of Attorney General of Texas, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff-States.

Eric T. Schneiderman , Attorney General of the State of New York, Won S. Chin , Assistant Solicitor General, Office of Attorney General of New York, New York, N.Y., for the State of New York.

Theodore J. Boutros, Jr. , Daniel G. Swanson , Blaine H. Evanson , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Cynthia E. Richman , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC, Orin S. Snyder , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, N.Y., for Apple, Inc.

Eamon P. Joyce , Joel M. Mitnick , Mark D. Taticchi , Sidley Austin LLP, New York, N.Y., for Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, d/b/a Macmillan.

Gregory Silbert , Yehuda L. Buchweitz , James W. Quinn , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, N.Y., for Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Simon & Schuster Digital Sales, Inc.

DENNIS JACOBS (Circuit Judge) files a separate dissenting opinion.

Since the invention of the printing press, the distribution of books has involved a fundamentally consistent process: compose a manuscript, print and bind it into physical volumes, and then ship and sell the volumes to the public. In late 2007, Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") introduced the Kindle, a portable device...

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