Apple’s Antitrust Judge
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Apple lucked out by having the iPhone antitrust case assigned to Judge Michael Farbiarz of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. That’s not to predict that he’ll rule one way or another, but it is to predict that he’ll follow the law rather than rule against Apple because it’s profitable or bought back stock or has a dominant share of the market, none of which are illegal under U.S. law, at least yet. When he was nominated in 2022 I sent the following draft editorial to the New York Sun:
