Google on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to block a lower court injunction requiring the company to make changes to Google Play Store after Fortnite maker Epic Games challenged the app store’s practices and won.
The tech giant asked Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees emergency requests from the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, to put several portions of the injunction on hold that “are the most intrusive and raise the greatest security concerns.”
“This case asks the Court to evaluate the lawfulness of an unprecedented antitrust injunction awarded at the request of a single, private plaintiff that will restructure the entire Android ecosystem, relied on by over 100 million U.S. users and over 500,000 app developers,” Google wrote in its filing.
Epic initially sued Go