U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Partial Apple Appeal in Epic Games Case

The U.S. Supreme Court said this week that it would hear an Apple appeal of its contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple. However, the court will not hear Apple’s related argument that its injunction in this case shouldn’t apply to all other developers.

The hearing can’t happen until October at the earliest, since the court is out of session until then, guaranteeing that this tedious, long-time case will drag out even further. The Supreme Court had previously declined to block a judicial order requiring Apple to meet the provisions in the contempt ruling, which came about after Apple belligerently worked to undermine the initial ruling in Epic v. Apple and one of its executives was found to have lied during testimony.

Apple appealed the ruling, of course, but a U.S. Court of Appeals panel upheld it in December 2025. Since then, Apple has continued flouting the law in a bid to retain the high fees it’s come to rely on.

“This is an important question of law and we are pleased the Supreme Court will hear our case,” an Apple statement reads.

“We’re heading to the Supreme Court where we’ll continue to fight against junk fees Apple charges on third-party payments,” Epic Games noted on Twitter/X. “Lower courts have rightly found Apple’s fees to be illegal and anticompetitive and we’ll continue to defend free markets.”