LAVOHO, LLC v. APPLE INC.

Nos. 14cv1768 (DLC), 14cv2000 (DLC).

71 F.Supp.3d 395 (2014)

LAVOHO, LLC, successor in interest to Diesel Ebooks, LLC, Plaintiff, v. APPLE INC.; Hachette Book Group, Inc.; Harpercollins Publishers, LLC; Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GHBH; Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, d/b/a MacMillan; The Penguin Group, A Division of Pearson PLC; and Simon & Schuster, Inc., Defendants. Abbey House Media, Inc., d/b/a BooksOnBoard, Plaintiff, v. Apple Inc.; Hachette Book Group, Inc.; HarperCollins Publishers, LLC; Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GHBH; Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, d/b/a MacMillan; The Penguin Group, A Division of Pearson PLC; and Simon & Schuster, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Signed December 3, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxwell M. Blecher , Jordan L. Ludwig , Blecher Collins Pepperman & Joy P.C., Los Angeles, CA, Eric M. Creizman , Creizman PLLC, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. , Daniel G. Swanson , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (LA), Los Angeles, CA, Cynthia E. Richman , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, Lawrence Jay Zweifach , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Apple Inc.

Michael Lacovara , Samuel Joseph Rubin , Walter B. Stuart, IV , Richard Sutton Snyder, Sr. , Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Charles Scott Lent , Arnold & Porter, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant HarperCollins Publishers, LLC.

John J. Lavelle , Joel M. Mitnick , Dorothy Ruolan Du , Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC and Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GMBH.

Amanda Christine Croushore , Saul P. Morganstern , Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant The Penguin Group.

Yehuda Lev Buchweitz , James W. Quinn , Jeffrey Leonard White , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant Simon & Schuster, Inc.


OPINION & ORDER

Two domestic plaintiffs seek recovery of damages from their foreign sales of e-books. They allege that the defendants, all domestic corporations, entered into a price-fixing conspiracy that injured the plaintiffs' ability to compete not only in this country but also abroad. For the...

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