Speaking of the Supreme Court’s end-of-term rulings, they today agreed to grant certiorari to Apple’s petition from last month, ordering:
APPLE INC. V. EPIC GAMES, INC.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to
Question 1 presented by the petition.
Question 1 regarded the civil contempt finding — basically, whether Apple could be held in contempt for violating the spirit of the injunction by charging a commission on external payments when the letter of the injunction said nothing forbidding commissions on payments. Question 2 raised by Apple regarded the scope of the injunction — arguing that even if the contempt finding were upheld, that it should apply only to Epic, not to all developers in the U.S. App Store.
