FORTUNE -- On Thanksgiving eve, Apple filed court papers launching a searing attack on the court-ordered monitor who had been appointed barely a month earlier to oversee its compliance with an antitrust decree relating to its sale of e-books.
Apple accused the monitor, Michael Bromwich, a partner at the law firm of Goodwin Procter, of charging excessive fees, behaving in an "unfettered and inappropriate manner," relying on "secret communications with the court," evincing "incredibly disruptive" mission creep, and acting in ways that threatened to turn him into an "quasi-inquisitional" offshoot of the federal judge who appointed him in violation of the constitutional principle of separation of powers.
Melissa Schwartz, a media relations specialist at Bromwich's consulting firm, The Bromwich Group, said Bromwich was out of the country and unavailable to comment. A Justice Department spokesperson said that any response from it would be made in court.
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