July 29, 2021
A member of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday rebuked publishers and advertisers objecting to centralizing a Texas-led antitrust suit against Google with a slew of private actions accusing the company of monopolizing the display advertising market, saying their protest "is a little perplexing."
July 23, 2021
The Texas federal judge overseeing the Lone Star State-led monopolization case against Google on Friday ordered Louisiana and South Carolina to provide specifics about the allegations they plan to pursue before he decides whether to allow them to intervene.
July 08, 2021
The attorneys general of Washington, D.C., and 36 states have now brought the number of U.S. enforcer lawsuits against Google to four, in an international pileup of investigations, enforcement actions, private litigation and lawmaker scrutiny. Here, Law360 breaks down the different aspects of Google's business that have come under fire in the United States and Europe.
June 18, 2021
Louisiana's attorney general has asked a Texas federal judge to let the Pelican State join an antitrust lawsuit from multiple states over Google's display advertising practices, saying it shares the same complaints against the online search giant.
June 04, 2021
Following a failed bid to transfer a suit led by the Texas Attorney General's Office to California, Google is pushing the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to centralize the suit in the Golden State with more than a dozen private cases alleging the tech giant monopolizes the display advertising market.
May 21, 2021
A Texas federal judge on Thursday night refused to send a Texas-led monopolization lawsuit against Google to California, rejecting the search giant's arguments that the case belongs with its private counterparts and that gathering evidence and witnesses in the Lone Star state would be more difficult.
March 18, 2021
A federal judge pressed Google on Thursday to justify its bid to transfer a Texas-led monopolization lawsuit from the Lone Star State to California, questioning whether eliminating the risk of duplicative litigation alleging monopolization of the display advertising market warrants upending state enforcers' choice of venue.
March 16, 2021
Enforcers from several states and Puerto Rico have joined the Texas-led coalition accusing Google of monopolizing the market for display advertising, signing on to a new complaint that also adds allegations concerning Google's Chrome browser and Facebook's WhatsApp service.
February 23, 2021
Texas and the nine other states accusing Google of illegally manipulating the display advertising market built their case on "gerrymandered market definitions" and a lack of understanding of how the digital ad market works, the company says.
February 10, 2021
Google continues pushing to transfer the monopolization case brought by state attorneys general targeting its display advertising business from Texas to California, arguing that the case is much more important to the Golden State.