In re: Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:21-md-03010

Court:

New York Southern

Nature of Suit:

Anti-Trust

Multi Party Litigation:

Multi-district Litigation, Class Action

Judge:

P. Kevin Castel

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Companies

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  1. March 20, 2026

    Ad Tech Class Can't Make Outside Plaintiffs Set Aside Funds

    Individual website publishers suing Google won't have to set aside 10% of any winnings in the sprawling advertising placement technology antitrust multidistrict litigation after a New York federal judge said that the certified class of publishers was embellishing its contributions in seeking the set-aside.

  2. March 17, 2026

    Google Wants Cutoff Date For Ad Tech Rivals' Claims

    Google moved to tee up a dismissal bid aimed at cutting key targeted policies from New York federal court antitrust claims from rival advertising placement technology providers, arguing that its "sophisticated" competitors cannot get around a four-year statute of limitations pegged to the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit.

  3. February 26, 2026

    LA Times Joins Ad Tech Antitrust Litigation Against Google

    The publisher of The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday threw its hat into multidistrict litigation targeting Google's advertising placement technology dominance, alleging that Google's monopolization forces publishers to sell ad space at depressed prices that boost the tech giant's profits while dramatically cutting revenue for publishers and Google's ad technology rivals.

  4. January 26, 2026

    Google Targets Publishers' Ad Tech Claims

    Google asked a New York federal judge to cut out a wide swath of antitrust claims from multidistrict litigation targeting its advertising placement technology dominance, assailing in separate briefs allegations from a class of website publishers and from the Daily Mail and Gannett.

  5. January 13, 2026

    Google Gets 6 Ad Tech Rivals' Complaints Consolidated To 2

    The six antitrust lawsuits from Google's advertising placement technology rivals will soon be consolidated into two, under a New York federal judge's ruling Tuesday combining the four suits originally filed in Virginia and pairing up the two filed in New York.

  6. January 12, 2026

    Ad Tech Rivals Say 'Unique Harms' Make Complaints Separate

    Google's advertising placement technology competitors have told a New York federal judge their half-dozen complaints should remain separate, arguing that letting the search giant tee up a consolidation motion would hamper, rather than streamline, their antitrust claims, which followed the U.S. Department of Justice's successful litigation against the company.

  7. January 06, 2026

    Google Wants One Complaint From Ad Tech Rivals, Not Six

    Google has asked a New York federal judge to tee up a bid to forcibly consolidate half a dozen antitrust lawsuits from rivals accusing Google of hobbling their advertising placement technology businesses, arguing one combined complaint would be more efficient for the lawsuits bearing "substantial similarities."

  8. December 13, 2025

    Google To Face Publishers' Class Claims Over AdX Exchange

    A New York federal judge Friday granted class certification in a multidistrict antitrust litigation over Google's advertising technology to publishers who sold ad space through the search giant's AdX ad space marketplace, but denied certification to publishers who used Google's AdSense platform and to a proposed class of advertisers.

  9. October 28, 2025

    Google Liable Again As DOJ's Ad Tech Win Extends To MDL

    A New York federal judge held Google liable Tuesday for illegally monopolizing its advertising placement technology business, dramatically narrowing the scope of the multidistrict litigation from website publishers, advertisers and others by locking the technology giant into the Justice Department's win in a separate Virginia federal court case.

  10. October 03, 2025

    Video Platform Rumble Defends Claims In Google Ad Tech MDL

    Video-sharing site Rumble Inc. urged a New York federal court on Friday not to toss its claims in the multidistrict litigation over Google's advertising technology, saying the allegations are similar to those being brought by federal and state enforcers and others that all survived dismissal.