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Apple tried at the last second to get out of producing a trove of documents by Monday as it was ordered to in its ongoing dispute with Epic, and Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson is not having it. In early August, the company was given a deadline of September 30 to produce documents relating to the <\/a> this year, which was its attempt to satisfy an injunction. Apple initially told the court that the task would entail reviewing roughly 650,000 documents \u2014 but in a status report on Thursday, it said the number had ballooned to over 1.3 million, and asked for a two-week extension. Hixson denied the request on Friday in a strongly worded <\/a> spotted by <\/em><\/a>, and called out Apple\u2019s move as \u201cbad behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n Apple and Epic have been submitting joint status reports to the court every two weeks, and the issue of Apple\u2019s documents exceeding its earlier estimate never previously came up, the judge noted. \u201cThis information would have been apparent to Apple weeks ago,\u201d Hixson said in the order. \u201cIt is simply not believable that Apple learned of this information only in the two weeks following the last status report.\u201d The judge said the request raises other concerns, calling into question the quality of Apple\u2019s reports and its intentions around complying in a timely manner. Apple has \u201cnearly infinite resources\u201d that it could have tapped to get the task done in the allotted time, according to Hixson.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a classic moral hazard,\u201d Hixson said in the order, \u201cand the way Apple announced out of the blue four days before the substantial completion deadline that it would not make that deadline because of a document count that it had surely been aware of for weeks hardly creates the impression that Apple is behaving responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n