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District Judge has ordered Apple it to submit 1.3 million documents about its January changes to the App Store policy by September 30

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On Friday we learned that Apple failed to convince the judge to extend the deadline for submitting relevant documents in its legal dispute with Epic Games. In a request submitted to the court on September 26, Apple claimed that because the number of documents that needed to be reviewed exceeded previous estimates, more time was needed to complete the review of the documents.

District Judge Thomas S. Hixson rejected Apple's request and ordered it to submit 1.3 million documents about its January changes to the App Store policy by September 30. The judge believed that Apple never mentioned in its previous status reports that the number of documents that needed to be reviewed was significantly higher than previously estimated, so Apple's claim that it only learned of this information in the last two weeks was not credible.

Judge Hixson stressed that Apple must comply with the original deadline and pointed out that Apple's delay could have a negative impact on the progress of the case. He believed that Apple was capable of completing the review of the documents within the weekend and speculated that Apple's delay was to avoid the exposure of unfavorable information.

The legal dispute began in 2020 when Epic Games bypassed the App Store rules and directly provided payment links, causing Apple to remove it from the App Store. Since then, the two sides have been embroiled in a legal dispute.

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