“If Apple’s appeal is not resolved until during or after the remedies trial, Apple may well be forced to stand mute at trial, as a mere spectator, while the government pursues an extreme remedy that targets Apple by name and would prohibit any commercial arrangement between Apple and Google for a decade.”
Google pays Apple billions a year to be the default search engine. The DOJ wants that arrangement banned for a decade. The court refused to let Apple join the case, so Apple filed an emergency motion. Apple is defending the check.