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On April 17, 2025, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema held that Google had violated both Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act by unlawfully monopolizing the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets and engaging in...more
During this week’s trial in Alexandria, Va., the Department of Justice (DOJ) and state attorneys general have outlined a sweeping set of structural and behavioral remedies to curtail Google’s dominance in digital advertising,...more
The US government, led by President Trump, has recorded another big win in the battle that US law enforcement agencies have been waging for years against Google. This time, a federal court issued a landmark ruling stating...more
Google again made antitrust headlines last week when a federal judge issued a 115-page decision finding that Google violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully establishing a monopoly in digital advertising markets relied...more
Recent actions by the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) highlight a sharp escalation in agency antitrust enforcement, particularly for dominant technology platforms. The DOJ has brought...more
On April 17, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Google violated antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the advertising technology market and unlawfully tying its products together....more
A bipartisan coalition of 17 AGs and the U.S. DOJ obtained a favorable ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in their antitrust case against Google LLC. As previously reported, the suit...more
Google is so ubiquitous it's both a noun and a verb, and nearly everyone's search engine of choice. As a result, the landmark antitrust case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and several states (collectively, the...more
The Department of Justice and 39 state attorneys general have revised proposed remedies they say will restore competition in the internet search engine market dominated by Google via an “illegal monopoly,” as they...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ), along with 38 state attorneys general, has backed away from part of its proposed remedy in the Google antitrust case that would have required Google to divest its AI investments and forgo...more
A bipartisan coalition of 38 AGs and the DOJ has submitted a revised proposed final judgment in their antitrust lawsuit against Google, following a U.S. District Court ruling that Google violated the Sherman Act by...more
A suit brought by state attorneys general accusing Google of overseeing a broad scheme of anticompetitive conduct in digital display advertising markets will continue following a Jan. 28, 2025, ruling from the Eastern...more
In a landmark move, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is poised to introduce unprecedented measures to counteract Google’s dominance in the online search sphere. Following a decisive ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit...more
Injunction is a victory for Epic Games and other app developers who want alternatives to the Google-controlled app store. Knocking another dent in the shield of Google’s multi-market dominance, U.S. Judge James Donato has...more
The government’s antitrust case against Google’s Search business passed another milestone with the government’s proposal of a remedies “framework” to loosen Google’s monopoly grip on the general search services and search...more
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division has been aggressively pursuing civil enforcement actions. While criminal enforcement of antitrust laws has been depressed, DOJ has found success in pursuing civil and merger...more
The fight over the lucrative app market ropes another manufacturer into the fray. Nine months after persuading a jury that Google LLC had monopolized the markets for Android app distribution and in-app billing, Epic Games has...more
In its 18 September 2024 ruling, the General Court of the European Union annulled the €1.5 billion fine that the European Commission had imposed on Google in 2019 for allegedly abusing its dominant position in online search...more
Since early September 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) presented its case-in-chief against Google in a lawsuit accusing the company of anti-competitive and monopolistic practices in the complex digital advertising...more
On August 5, 2024, District Judge Amit P. Mehta (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia) ruled in United States v. Google LLC that Google violated §2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing the internet search engine market....more
Six Simple Steps to Avoid Sanctions for Failure to Preserve Electronic Evidence - I’m not a lawyer, and far be it for me to give legal advice, but I’ve lived and worked around lawyers for all of my professional legal career,...more
I was not alone in noting the significance of the D.C. district court's decision earlier this month to hold Google liable for monopolization of the general search market and the search text advertising market in United...more
On August 8, 2024, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued his much anticipated and long-awaited opinion in the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) case challenging Google's...more
Following a nine-week bench trial starting in September 2023 and closing arguments in May 2024, District of Columbia district court judge Amit Mehta ruled on August 5, 2024, that Google illegally maintained its monopoly in...more
In recent weeks, there have been several transformative developments that not only will profoundly impact antitrust and competition law but also shape the ability of so-called “Big Tech” to continue to dominate their...more