Some class actions burn out quickly. Some rage for couple of years and then fizzle. Plaintiffs lawyers kept a billion-dollar antitrust class action against Apple Inc. smoldering for a whole decade, until Bill Isaacson and Karen Dunn of Boies, Schiller & Flexner stepped in to douse the flames.
Just three hours after Isaacson and Dunn delivered their closing arguments in the case on Tuesday, a federal jury in Oakland rejected claims that Apple used a 2006 software and firmware update to lock iPod customers into its iTunes store and thwart competition for portable tunes. Plaintiffs lawyers at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd had sought more than $1 billion in trebled damages under the Sherman Act. Instead they walked away from the trial with nothing but 10 years of litigation expenses.
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