GoKawiilEpic Games just convinced the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse a prior decision that temporarily paused enforcement of a ruling requiring Apple to loosen certain App Store rules while it sought Supreme Court review. Here are the details.
Picking up where we left off
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted Apple’s motion to stay a recent ruling requiring it to loosen certain App Store rules related to alternative payment methods.
Following the court’s decision, Epic filed two motions. The first claimed that Epic didn’t have the appropriate amount of time to prepare a rebuff to Apple’s request for a stay, while the second asked the court to reject Apple’s original request for a stay.
At the time, Epic said that Apple’s motion to stay was “another delay tactic to prevent the court from establishing significant and permanent bounds on Apple’s ability to charge junk fees on third-party payments.”
This prompted Apple to file a response, arguing that there was no reason to revisit the stay and that keeping it in place would avoid unnecessary lower-court proceedings while it seeks Supreme Court review.
Epic, in turn, filed a reply saying that Apple hadn’t shown any real need for the stay, and adding that a Supreme Court appeal wouldn’t eliminate the need for further proceedings in the lower court so that both processes could move forward at the same time.
Which brings us to today.
Court reverses stay
Earlier tonight, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted Epic’s motion for reconsideration, reversing its earlier decision to stay the mandate.
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