“The Supreme Courtroom is Google’s final hope to keep away from an Epic reckoning in October,” I wrote last week. Google apparently agrees. Immediately, it’s lastly elevated its Epic v. Google case, the one which may fracture its control over the entire Android app ecosystem, to the Supreme Courtroom degree. Google has now confirmed it should enchantment its case to the Supreme Courtroom, and in the intervening time, it’s asking the Courtroom to press pause another time on the everlasting injunction that might begin taking away its management.
On September twelfth, the Ninth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals affirmed that everlasting injunction and gave Google till October to cease forcing app builders to make use of its Google Play Billing for funds, permit them to hyperlink to different methods to pay and different locations to obtain apps, set their very own costs, and more.
However the Supreme Courtroom would possibly see it otherwise. It’d agree with Google’s argument that the decrease courts overstepped, or that Apple’s win in Epic v. Apple is related to the Google case, or any variety of different arguments you can learn within the full doc beneath.
Google says it should absolutely enchantment to the Supreme Courtroom for certiorari by October twenty seventh, 2025, and is asking the Supreme Courtroom to determine whether or not it’ll press pause on the injunction by October seventeenth. In the meantime, the district court docket decide who issued the injunction, Decide James Donato, is asking Google and Epic to elucidate how they’ll adjust to it in his courtroom on October thirtieth.