"The Apple iPod iTunes Anti-Trust Litigation"

Filing 737

Administrative Motion to File Under Seal Portions of Plaintiffs' Daubert Motion to Exclude Certain Opinion Testimony of Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel and Exhibits 1-10 Pursuant to Civil L.R. 7-11 and 79-5 filed by Somtai Troy Charoensak, Mariana Rosen, Melanie Tucker. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Bonny E. Sweeney in support thereof, # 2 Proposed Order regarding Plaintiffs' Administrative Motion to File Under Seal, # 3 Redacted Version of Plaintiffs' Notice of Motion and Daubert Motion to Exclude Certain Opinion Testimony of Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel, # 4 Unredacted Version of Plaintiffs' Notice of Motion and Daubert Motion to Exclude Certain Opinion Testimony of Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel, # 5 Declaration of Bonny E. Sweeny in Support of Plaintiffs' Daubert Motion to Exclude Certain Opinion Testimony of Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel, # 6 Exhibit Redacted Version of Exhibits 1-10, # 7 Exhibit Unredacted Version of Exhibits 1-4, # 8 Exhibit Unredacted Version of Exhibit 5, # 9 Exhibit Unredacted Version of Exhibits 6-10, # 10 Exhibit 11-14, # 11 Proposed Order Granting Plaintiffs' Daubert Motion to Exclude Certain Opinion Testimony of Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel)(Sweeney, Bonny) (Filed on 12/20/2013)

1 ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN
& DOWD LLP
2 BONNY E. SWEENEY (176174)
THOMAS R. MERRICK (177987)
3 ALEXANDRA S. BERNAY (211068)
CARMEN A. MEDICI (248417)
4 JENNIFER N. CARINGAL (286197)
655 West Broadway, Suite 1900
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THE APPLE IPOD ITUNES ANTI-TRUST
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This Document Relates To:
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Lead Case No. C-05-00037-YGR
CLASS ACTION
DECLARATION OF BONNY E. SWEENEY
IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS’ DAUBERT
MOTION TO EXCLUDE CERTAIN
OPINION TESTIMONY OF KEVIN M.
MURPHY AND ROBERT H. TOPEL

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February 18, 2014
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Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers

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I, BONNY E. SWEENEY, declare:

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I am an attorney duly licensed to practice before all of the courts of the State of

3 California. I am a member of the law firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Class Counsel
4 for the Class and for Plaintiffs Melanie Tucker, Mariana Rosen and Somtai Troy Charoensak
5 (collectively, “plaintiffs”) in this action. I have personal knowledge of the matters stated herein, and,
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I submit this declaration in support of Plaintiffs’ Daubert Motion to Exclude Certain

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Attached hereto are true and correct copies of the following documents:
Declaration of Jeffrey M. Wooldridge in Support of Plaintiffs’ Daubert
Motion to Exclude Certain Opinion Testimony of Robert H. Topel and Kevin
M. Murphy, dated December 20, 2013 [filed under seal];
Declaration of Roger G. Noll on Liability and Damages, dated April 3, 2013
[filed under seal];
Corrections to Declaration of Roger G. Noll on Liability and Damages, dated
May 31, 2013 [filed under seal];
Rebuttal Declaration of Roger G. Noll on Liability and Damages, November
25, 2013 [filed under seal];
Expert Report of Kevin M. Murphy (Amended), dated August 19, 2013 [filed
under seal];
Expert Report of Robert H. Topel (Amended), dated August 19, 2013 [filed
under seal];
Supplemental Declaration of Augustin Farrugia, dated July 2, 2013 [filed
under seal];
Relevant Excerpts from the Deposition Transcript of Professor Roger G. Noll,
taken December 18, 2013 [filed under seal];
Relevant Excerpts from the Deposition Transcript of Robert Topel, Ph.D.,
taken November 8, 2013 [filed under seal];
Relevant Excerpts from the Deposition Transcript of Kevin Murphy, Ph.D.,
taken November 12, 2013 [filed under seal];
Relevant Excerpts from Joshua D. Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Mostly
Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion (Princeton University
Press 2009);
Relevant Excerpts from American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust,
Proving Antitrust Damages: Legal and Economic Issues (2d ed. 2010);
Relevant Excerpts from Colin Cameron and Douglas L. Miller, Robust
Inference with Clustered Data, in Handbook of Empirical Economics and
Finance (CRC Press 2011); and

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Relevant Excerpts from United States v. Apple Inc., No. 1:12-cv-02826-DLC ,
Hearing Transcript for Proceedings held on May 23, 2013 (S.D.N.Y).

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I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the
foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 20th day of December, 2013, at San Diego, California.
s/ Bonny E. Sweeney
BONNY E. SWEENEY

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on December 20, 2013, I authorized the electronic filing of the foregoing

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4 the e-mail addresses denoted on the attached Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby certify that I
5 caused to be mailed the foregoing document or paper via the United States Postal Service to the non6 CM/ECF participants indicated on the attached Manual Notice List.
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I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the

8 foregoing is true and correct. Executed on December 20, 2013.
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s/ Bonny E. Sweeney
BONNY E. SWEENEY

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& DOWD LLP
655 West Broadway, Suite 1900
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