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Epic Games fails to justify 'extreme new injunction,' Apple says

( August 29, 2025, 16:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Epic Games "does not seriously grapple with the substantive and procedural flaws with the new, punitive injunction at issue," Apple told a US appeals court. In a reply brief for its appeal of a lower court's order finding the technology company in civil contempt of an earlier injunction, Apple argued that "Epic has not justified the extreme new injunction imposed by the district court." In 2021 — following a trial over Epic’s antitrust claims against Apple — US District Judge Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to allow developers to include external links in their apps that direct customers to purchasing methods outside of its In-App Purchasing, or IAP. But in a scathing opinion earlier this year, Gonzalez Rogers said that “evidence clearly and convincingly demonstrates that Apple willfully chose to ignore” her mandate and imposed several permanent restrictions on the company.See attached reply brief....

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