They might be giants | FutureBook

In her summing up of the Apple collusion trial Judge Denise Cote evoked the two wrongs rule: "Another company's alleged violation of antitrust laws is not an excuse for engaging in your own violations of law. Nor is suspicion that that may be occurring a defense to the claims litigated at this trial," she said. But as a profile of Cote published in Vanity Fair earlier this year noted: "Nothing the publishers did - delaying the release of e-books, complaining to Amazon, upping their wholesale prices to the company, or, in the case of one house, Hachette, actually going to the Justice Department to gripe - seemed to work."