Google just asked the Supreme Court to save it from the Epic ruling

“The Supreme Court is Google’s past anticipation to debar an Epic reckoning successful October,” I wrote past week. Google seemingly agrees. Today, it’s yet elevated its Epic v. Google case, the 1 that mightiness fracture its power implicit the full Android app ecosystem, to the Supreme Court level. Google has present confirmed it volition entreaty its lawsuit to the Supreme Court, and successful the meanwhile, it’s asking the Court to property intermission 1 much clip connected the imperishable injunction that would commencement taking distant its control.

On September 12th, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that imperishable injunction and gave Google until October to halt forcing app developers to usage its Google Play Billing for payments, let them to nexus to different ways to wage and different places to download apps, acceptable their ain prices, and more.

But the Supreme Court mightiness spot it differently. It mightiness hold with Google’s statement that the little courts overstepped, oregon that Apple’s triumph successful Epic v. Apple is applicable to the Google case, oregon immoderate fig of different arguments that you tin work successful the afloat papers below.

Google says it volition afloat entreaty to the Supreme Court for certiorari by October 27th, 2025, and is asking the Supreme Court to determine whether it’ll property intermission connected the injunction by October 17th. Meanwhile, the territory tribunal justice who issued the injunction, Judge James Donato, is asking Google and Epic to explicate however they’ll comply with it successful his courtroom connected October 30th.