Overview
- Justice Elena Kagan granted a temporary 24‑hour administrative stay that paused the district court’s deadline for Apple to file a proposed fee schedule while the Supreme Court weighs Apple’s request for a longer pause.
- The pause follows Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s refusal to delay the fee proceedings and her prior order that Apple submit its proposed rates and supporting evidence on a tight timeline.
- Apple has proposed charging developers 15 percent for standard apps, 10 percent for certain partner programs and renewals, and 5 percent for apps in its Small Business Program.
- An appeals court upheld the contempt finding against Apple for imposing a 27 percent link-out fee but sent the case back for a district court to set a reasonable fee and noted a cost‑based approach could yield no fee.
- The outcome will affect developer revenue and could set a U.S. reference point for platform rules worldwide and those effects will hinge on whether the Supreme Court ultimately upholds or overturns the contempt ruling.