Update, 6:44 p.m. ET: Epic Games has reached out to 9to5Mac with a statement on today’s filing. You can find it below the original post. Apple today filed a request with the Supreme Court in an attempt to reverse key lower court rulings over the App Store injunction in its long-running legal battle with Epic Games. Here are the details. A bit of background If you’ve been following the Epic Games versus Apple saga, you know the dispute began in 2020, when Epic used a server-side update to bypass Apple’s In-App Purchase (IAP) system inside Fortnite after the app had already passed App Review. Apple immediately removed the game from the App Store. Epic immediately sued . Throughout the many twists and turns of the case, the courts rejected Epic’s broader antitrust claims and largely upheld Apple’s App Store model. However, Epic did win on one point: in 2021 , the court said Apple could no longer block developers from directing users to alternative payment options outside Apple’s IAP system.…