Jury told how to listen in Beats case opening

Juror warnings mark opening in $107M trial over Beats royalties

The plaintiff in a long-running dispute over headphones told a jury to be ready to block out any peripheral noise that might distract from the issue at hand, while the defendants told them to turn up the volume and listen closely to every single word.

Eleven years after ink dried on the royalties agreement at the heart of the dispute, counsel for Beats Electronics and Steven Lamar -- a former hedge manager who says the company owes ...

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