Latham & Watkins on behalf of Apple transmitted dozens of documents to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit seeking to overturn U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta's order denying its request to intervene alongside Google.

Google has been found in court to be a monopoly, but there is to be a trial to plan how to remedy the situation, and the judge has now refused to accept Apple intervening, saying it waited too long.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta today denied Apple's last-minute request to allow it to represent itself in U.S. v Google.

A federal judge last summer ruled that the $20B+ Google pays to Apple to be the default search engine on the Cupertino company’s devices was illegal. Several Apple execs testified in the case, but a request to present an additional three witnesses has been refused by the judge,