Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that found Apple in willful violation of a 2021 injunction designed to stop the company’s anticompetitive App Store practices.
The court has barred Apple from charging its 27% commission on external purchases and ordered it to immediately stop interfering with developers’ ability to communicate alternative payment options to users.
In court documents filed Wednesday, Apple said “these restrictions, which will cost Apple substantial sums annually, are based on conduct that has never been adjudicated to be (and is not) unlawful; rather, they were imposed to punish Apple for purported non-compliance with an earlier state-law Injunction that is itself invalid.”
In its motion, Apple seeks a stay of the prohibitions on charging any commission or fee for transactions made through external purchase links, and setting any conditions on the language or placement of links or other references to external purchase options. The tech giant adds that tese new rules were not part of the original injunction.”
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