The Apple App Store app on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an antitrust challenge by Epic Games, maker of the popular video game "Fortnite," to the way Apple runs its lucrative App Store, handing the software company a setback in its lengthy legal battle against the iPhone maker.
The justices also decided not to hear Apple's appeal of the same decision, which barred certain App Store rules.
The Supreme Court in 2023 denied a bid by Epic to let the injunction take effect.
In its appeal to the Supreme Court, Epic had said that the 9th Circuit's decision "guarantees severe anticompetitive harm and effectively insulates the most monopolistic tech-platform practices from antitrust scrutiny."
Persons:
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, Rogers, Apple
Organizations:
Apple, U.S, Supreme, Epic Games, Circuit
Locations:
New York, San Francisco