Google Asks Supreme Court To Rescue It From Its Epic Lawsuit

Google is asking nan Supreme Court to measurement successful and region nan ruling nan institution received successful its suit pinch Epic Games, according to a filing nan institution shared pinch Engadget. The institution is making its petition pursuing a awesome ineligible nonaccomplishment to Epic Games successful October 2024, which required it to unfastened nan Google Play Store to third-party app stores for a play of 3 years.

Google is asking nan justices to intervene by October 17, 3 days earlier nan injunction Epic won starts to spell into effect. The institution hopes that aft offering a stay, nan Court will return up nan lawsuit for a afloat review. Asking nan Supreme Court for alleviation wouldn't person moreover entered nan image if Google's entreaty hadn't already been denied by nan Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The company's filing includes aggregate method reasons why nan Ninth Circuit Court's ruling should beryllium overturned. It besides offers respective examples why nan original injunction Epic won is bad for Google, developers and consumers.

Google believes nan injunction "[creates] tremendous information and information risks by enabling stores that banal malicious, deceptive aliases pirated contented to proliferate,” and that it burdens developers pinch "constantly monitoring dozens aliases hundreds of stores that mightiness abruptly transportation their apps without their knowledge." The institution besides notes that nan injunction will make it "substantially easier for developers to debar compensating Google," for Play Store services that person thing to do pinch payments.

On nan losing extremity of its four-year ineligible battle pinch Fortnite developer Epic, Google wasn't conscionable ordered to unfastened up nan Play Store to third-party app stores, it's besides nary longer allowed to make deals astir pre-installing nan Play Store connected phones aliases unit developers to usage its billing system. In opposition to Epic's lawsuit pinch Apple, wherever nan developer only won a small, if meaningful concession, Google's nonaccomplishment gave Epic astir everything it asked for.

When some Apple and Google asked nan Supreme Court to reappraisal their lawsuit past year, nan tribunal denied their requests without explanation. It's not clear if Google will get what it wants, but fixed nan overmuch larger changes it'll beryllium forced to make if nan injunction moves forward, it's imaginable nan tribunal could respond differently.