Epic Games whines over Apple’s demand for $73 million in legal fees

“Fortnite” maker Epic Games is complaining to a U.S. judge that Apple “completely overreached” in demanding that it pay legal fees totaling more than $73 million after the gamer-peddler broke App Store payment method rules and subsequently filed a lawsuit against the App Store owner.
Mike Scarcella for Reuters:
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Epic urged U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in a court filing on Friday to deny Apple’s request for legal fees and costs in Epic’s lawsuit challenging Apple’s controls over transactions within iOS applications and how apps are distributed to consumers.
The U.S. Supreme Court last month declined appeals from both companies in the case, leaving in place a decision that rejected most of Epic’s lawsuit but required Apple to make some changes in its lucrative App Store.
In its court filing, Epic called Apple’s demand for $73.4 million in fees “striking.” It said at most the iPhone maker was entitled to a “far narrower” amount tied to Epic’s breach of Apple’s developer agreement.
Epic did not contest the breach-of-contract claim, and it was not a litigated issue, the Cary, North Carolina-based company said in its filing.
Apple has asserted that the allegations in Epic’s lawsuit were intertwined and that it is entitled to all of its fees and costs.

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