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Epic Games has achieved another victory in its antitrust lawsuit against Google, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling that Google’s Play Store and payment systems are monopolies. This decision enforces limitations on Google’s ability to pay phone manufacturers to preinstall the Play Store and mandates that Google allow third-party app stores to be downloaded from the Play Store. Epic originally sued Google after the tech giant removed Fortnite from its Play Store when Epic bypassed Google’s payment system. Google plans to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court.