Two Economists File Pro-Apple Brief in Ebook Antitrust Case

I don't know how much weight friends of the court carry in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

But the pro-Apple (AAPL) amici curiae brief filed Wednesday by two economists lays out clearly -- more clearly perhaps than Apple's own trial lawyers -- the economic and legal issues the company tried and failed to get across to Judge Denise Cote last June. (See The view from the hard benches.)