Lewis and Clark

(Credit: CBS) ANALYSIS (CNET)The U.S. Justice Department's legal pursuit of Apple for stretches the boundaries of antitrust law and is likely to end in defeat. That's what happened in 1982, when an embarrassed Justice Department admitted its antitrust lawsuit against IBM was "without merit" and abandoned the case. And in 2001, a federal appeals court nixed the Justice Department's ambitious attempt to rewrite antitrust law by carving Microsoft into two separate companies. "It's a harder case against Apple than the publishers," says Geoffrey Manne, who teaches antitrust law at the Lewis and Clark Law School in Oregon and runs