Cla action lawsuits filed agai t A le

Just when you think A le's financial woes have begun to recede, Forbes.com alerts us to a slew of recently filed cla action lawsuits that all have the big fruit in their sights. First up is yet another complaint alleging that A le has created a monopoly by tying iTS purchases to the iPod and only the iPod. Even though suits like this have come and gone, the court has interestingly denied A le's motion to dismi .

Next in line is a suit over the MacBook's iBook G4's "a ormally high rate" of logic board failure. This suit was filed Nov. 7th, and A le still has time to re ond.

A third suit is coming from PhatRat Technology LLC, who is calling patent infringement on the Nike+iPod product. A re o e from A le is still pending here as well.

Last (though po ibly not least?) is a securities cla action suit agai t the company and "certain current and former officers and directors" over all this backdated stock option grant busine .

That's about everything Forbes has on the A le lawsuit list for now. Think it's still worth it to wish A le a ha y new year?