Apple wants to ensure it has a voice in the remedies trial for the Justice Department’s search monopolization case against Google, and filed an emergency motion to stay the proceedings while it appeals the district court’s denial of its request to be more directly heard in the case.

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.

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.

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