Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers

Rule Changes

Assigned the remand to redesign contempt remedies and define a permissible fee framework

On December 11, 2025, the Ninth Circuit mostly backed the trial judge's contempt finding that Apple played games with the anti-steering injunction. But the court clipped parts of the punishment — the same pattern this case keeps producing: Apple complies in a way that protects the money, and Epic comes back yelling "that's not compliance."

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