Justice Elena Kagan denied Apple’s emergency stay application on Wednesday on behalf of the court, declining to refer the request to the full bench. Apple now returns to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland to argue over what commission, if any, it can lawfully charge on external-link app purchases. The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to pause the lower-court order finding Apple in contempt in the long-running Epic Games App Store dispute. Reuters reported that Justice Elena Kagan, acting on behalf of the court, denied Apple’s emergency stay application without referring it to the full bench, in a procedural signal that the request was not a close call. Kagan acted less than an hour after Epic’s opposition to Apple’s stay request was distributed, and before Apple had an opportunity to file a reply. The denial leaves the Ninth Circuit’s contempt finding in place while Apple’s underlying petition for certiorari proceeds.…