Supreme Court agrees to hear Apple's appeal in the Epic Games contempt case
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up Apple's appeal in the long-running App Store dispute with Epic Games. At issue is a civil contempt finding against Apple for violating a 2021 injunction.
That injunction came out of Epic's 2020 lawsuit. Apple won most of the original case, but the court ordered it to let developers put links in their apps pointing customers to outside payment options. Apple complied with the links, then attached a 27 percent commission to purchases made through them within seven days, against its usual 30 percent rate. Epic argued that this undercut the order.