A federal judge held Apple in contempt Wednesday for violating a 2021 court order stemming from the Epic Games antitrust case. The judge accused the tech giant of deception and anticompetitive conduct, according to CNBC. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said Apple willfully ignored her ruling by imposing a 27% fee on web-linked app purchases, defying the court’s mandate that such transactions be commission-free. Judge Rogers wrote that Apple and its lawyers failed to correct what she now calls obvious lies, effectively adopting the false statements presented to the court. She referred the case to U.S. attorneys to consider criminal contempt charges against both Apple and executive Alex Roman.
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00:02Federal judge held Apple in contempt Wednesday for violating a 2021 court order
00:06stemming from the Epic Games antitrust case.
00:09Judge accused the tech giant of deception and anti-competitive conduct, according to CNBC.
00:14Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said Apple willfully ignored her ruling
00:18by imposing a 27% fee on web-linked app purchases
00:22to find the court's mandate that such transactions be commission-free.
00:26Judge Rogers wrote that Apple and its lawyers
00:28failed to correct what she now calls obvious lies,
00:31effectively adopting the false statements presented to the court.
00:34She referred the case to U.S. attorneys to consider criminal contempt charges
00:39against both Apple and executive Alex Roman.
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