Apple is taking its battle with Epic Games to the U.S. Supreme Court with the intention to reverse a ruling from the Court of Appeals that affects the App Store policies.
The long-running lawsuit between the Fortnite game maker and the App Store owner is close to reaching the highest court in the United States. In this case, it is because Apple wants to revisit an antitrust appeal that didn’t go entirely the company’s way.
In a filing to the Supreme Court on Monday, Apple’s legal team motions for a reconsideration of an April ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the matter. While in April the court upheld most of a previous decision in the case, it rejected attempts by Epic and Apple to revisit the decision on Friday.
With the Ninth Court refusing to continue, Reuters reports Apple is moving the matter further up the judicial food chain to the Supreme Court.
Apple’s motion claims that the appeals court reached too far by issuing a nationwide injunction against Apple over alleged violations of California state unfair competition law. The petition states it raises “far-reaching and important” questions about the power of judges in issuing broad injunctions.
During April’s appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court’s 2021 decision rejecting claims from Epic that the App Store violated federal laws, including those relating to forbidding third-party app stores on its platforms. However, the court also upheld a ruling on California state law claims against Apple.
For developers, this largely covers policies such as anti-steering provisions that prevented developers from pointing customers in other directions than the App Store’s In-App Payments system.
While Apple has made its motion to the Supreme Court, Epic Games has yet to request a hearing of its own appeal.
This story originally appeared on Appleinsider
