DIESEL EBOOKS, LLC v. SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.

Docket No. 16-726-cv August Term, 2016.

869 F.3d 55 (2017)

DIESEL EBOOKS, LLC, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, Lavoho, L.L.C., successor in interest Diesel Ebooks, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant, v. SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC., Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, DBA Macmillan, Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., The Penguin Group (USA) LLC, the successor to the named defendant The Penguin Group, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees, Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH, 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

DEREK T. HO ( Collin R. White , on the brief), Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., 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.

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

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

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

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.

Before: Kearse, Hall, Chin, Circuit Judges.


Lavoho, LLC, successor in interest to Diesel eBooks LLC, 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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