The US Supreme Court has rejected Apple’s emergency request to temporarily block a civil contempt order entered by a lower court against the company, in a long-running case with Epic Games, as Apple tries to stave off changes to its App Store business model.
Apple mostly defeated the Epic case, which began in 2020, but the judge in that case, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, issued an injunction in 2021 that Apple should allow developers to link to external payment methods.
Apple did so, but imposed 27 percent fees on such purchases, compared to fees of around 30 percent usually applied to purchases completed within its App Store.
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Contempt of court
