ABBEY HOUSE MEDIA, INC. v. SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.

Docket No. 16-305-cv August Term, 2016.

869 F.3d 53 (2017)

ABBEY HOUSE MEDIA, INC., DBA BooksOnBoard, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC., Penguin Group (USA) LLC, the successor to the named Defendant The Penguin Group, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees, Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers, L.L.C., Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH, Holtzbrinck Publishers, L.L.C., DBA Macmillan, The Penguin Group, a division of Pearson PLC, Defendants-Appellees, Apple Inc., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 17, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MAXWELL M. BLECHER ( Harold R. Collins , Donald R. Pepperman , and Taylor C. Wagniere , on the brief), Blecher Collins & Pepperman, P.C., Los Angeles, California, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant.

GREGORY SILBERT ( James W. Quinn and Yehudah L. Buchweitz , on the brief), Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Saul P. Morgenstern , Margaret A. Rogers , and Alice C.C. Huling , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee Penguin Group (USA) LLC.

Linda H. Martin and Samuel J. Rubin , Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee Hachette Book Group, Inc.

C. Scott Lent , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellee HarperCollins Publishers, L.L.C.

Joel M. Mitnick , John J. Lavelle , and Bianca Cadena , Sidley Austin LLP, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, DBA Macmillan and Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH.

Before: Kearse, Hall, Chin, Circuit Judges.


Abbey House Media, Inc., doing business as BooksOnBoard, brought this civil antitrust action for business injuries it alleges arose from an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade between Apple, Inc. and five major publishing companies, who are the Defendants. We have ruled that the publisher Defendants and Apple did indeed conspire unlawfully...

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