Apple files legal response to e-book class-action suit

0120(0)2updated 03:49 pm EDT, Wed May 30, 2012 Says Steve Jobs quotes will 'speak for themselves'

Apple has now filed a legal response to the similar-but-separate e-book "price-fixing" class-action lawsuit brought by 31 states that mirrors the charges against Apple and two of the five major publishers being pursued by the Department of Justice. Though covering many of the same points and defenses enumerated in the DOJ response, the company argues for dismissal of the civil lawsuit as being a duplicate of the ongoing federal one, among other defenses.The iPhone maker, in its response to the class-action charges, promises that quotes by Steve Jobs used in the DOJ lawsuit will "speak for themselves" and demonstrate that they are being misinterpreted or taken out of context. The document admits that "representatives of each of the publishers separately expressed varying degrees of unhappiness with Amazon

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