Supreme Court Agrees to Review Apple’s Petition Regarding Civil Contempt Finding in ‘Apple v. Epic Games’

Speaking of the Supreme Court’s end-of-term rulings, they today agreed to grant certiorari to Apple’s petition from last month, ordering:

APPLE INC. V. EPIC GAMES, INC.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition.

Question 1 regarded the civil contempt finding — basically, whether Apple could be held in contempt for violating the spirit of the injunction by charging a commission on external payments when the letter of the injunction said nothing forbidding commissions on payments. Question 2 raised by Apple regarded the scope of the injunction — arguing that even if the contempt finding were upheld, that it should apply only to Epic, not to all developers in the U.S. App Store.

(I decided against mentioning it in my article last month, “The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts”, but in stark contrast to the handsomeness and dignity with which their decisions are typeset (in Century Schoolbook), the Court’s daily orders are, inexplicably, set in Lucida Sans Typewriter.)

★ Tuesday, 30 June 2026