Update in Apple iPod Class Action Antitrust Case

Last week, the Prairie Law Blog posted about the beginning of the trial in a class action lawsuit against Apple, in which the plaintiffs alleged that Apple violated antitrust laws by preventing certain models of iPods from playing songs that were not purchased via Apple's iTunes Store.

The ABA Journal recently reported that the judge presiding over the trial disqualified the one remaining lead plaintiff, because she did not purchase the iPod device within the time period required by the class action lawsuit.  The judge ordered counsel for the plaintiffs to find a substitute lead plaintiff as soon as possible for the trial to proceed.  Bloomberg News reports here on efforts to name a new lead plaintiff in the case. 

Stay up-to-date with developments in the case via Bloomberg News' Antitrust Litigation news page here.