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Court Stays Order Requiring Apple To Allow In-App Links To Outside Payment Options

December 9, 2021

Via: MediaPost
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Siding with Apple, a federal appellate court has stayed a trial judge’s order that would have required the company to allow developers to use in-app buttons or links to point consumers to outside payment options.

In an order issued Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Apple raised “serious questions” about the basis for the injunction, and also showed that the injunction could subject the company to “irreparable harm.”

The now-stayed order was issued earlier this year by U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, who presided over a lawsuit brought against Apple by Fortnite developer Epic Games.

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