A federal judge has denied a request by Apple IncAAPL -1.94%. to remove a lawyer she appointed to monitor the company’s e-book pricing reform, saying it “failed to show” that’s in the “public interest” to do so.
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan also denied the company’s request to delay oversight of its antitrust compliance, saying there was no threat of “irreparable harm” to the company.
The judge appointed the monitor after she ruled last year that Apple colluded with five major U.S. publishers to drive up the prices of e-books in a civil antitrust case. But Apple and the monitor, attorney Michael Bromwich, have been fighting for months.
