Court finds Apple, executive lied under oath in Epic Games trial

Customers walk past an Apple logo inside of an Apple store at Grand Central Station in New York on Aug 1, 2018. Apple willfully violated a 2021 injunction that came out of the Epic Games case, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a court filing on Wednesday. She wrote that Apple Vice President of Finance Alex Roman "outright lied" to the court about when Apple had decided to levy a 27% fee on some purchases linked to its App Store. "Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now obvious, lies," Rogers wrote, saying that she considers Apple to "to have adopted the lies and misrepresentations to this Court." Rogers added that she referred the matter to U.S. attorneys to investigate whether to pursue criminal contempt proceedings on both Roman and Apple. The decision is a striking repudiation of Apple's conduct in the Epic Games trial, which was decided in 2021 and appealed in 2023. While Apple won the vast majority of counts in the original trial, Epic Games did win some conces ... Read full article.