Apple Inc. and its defense lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are once again butting heads with Southern District Judge Denise Cote (See Profile), who ruled that the company fixed e-book prices.

Apple’s latest objections, filed on Nov. 27, relate to the external monitor Cote tasked with ensuring Apple’s compliance with antitrust laws, Michael Bromwich of Goodwin Procter. According to Gibson Dunn, Cote blindsided Apple with an unconstitutional order that would grant Bromwich “wide-ranging, intrusive, and excessive inquisitorial powers of a sort reserved to prosecutors.”