Filed under: Misc. GadgetsThe twisted tale of Apple's backdated stock options drew closer to its final chapter today, with a California judge dismissing the shareholder class-action lawsuit against the company over the allegedly improper accounting procedures. Unlike the SEC, which essentially cleared Apple, the court didn't rule one way or another on the actual backdating issue, but instead found that since Apple's stock price didn't suffer, there was no injury to the shareholders, and thus no basis for the lawsuit. That ruling leaves
