February 03, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice's Jan. 24 suit seeking to break up Google's advertising business adds to a mountain of antitrust litigation already targeting the tech giant. In addition to federal enforcement, Google is also facing cases from dozens of state-level enforcers, as well as from developers, advertisers and consumers, all accusing it of monopolizing various digital markets.
January 11, 2023
The decision by numerous phone manufacturers and browser developers to make Google the default search engine for their products stems from it being the highest quality option rather than a monopolization effort, the search giant said in an unsealed bid to end the government's landmark antitrust cases.
January 02, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission prepares to test the limits of its authority to combat unfair methods of competition in the coming year, as the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers continue pushing aggressive antitrust agendas alongside new proposed class actions from private parties.
October 19, 2022
The Justice Department has urged a D.C. federal court to reject a bid by Google LLC to exclude a Notre Dame technology ethics expert from the government's landmark monopolization case against the search giant.
August 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice battled Google in a D.C. federal court hearing Wednesday over access to "raw" search data sought to ensure the technology giant did not selectively pick what its expert was looking at when analyzing how consumers use the service.
June 17, 2022
A D.C. federal judge refused Friday to force the Justice Department to answer additional questions about its views on the web of contracts keeping Google as the default search on smartphones, questioning why it matters if the government would consider those deals illegal if struck by other providers.
May 13, 2022
A D.C. federal judge refused to sanction Google based on the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations of the tech giant training employees to hide evidence of supposed monopolistic practices behind privilege claims, having previously indicated he believes he lacks the authority to punish prelitigation conduct.
April 20, 2022
The Justice Department and Google provided dramatically different responses to a D.C. federal judge's request for examples of court sanctions that could help determine whether the company can be punished for allegedly training employees to hide evidence of supposed monopolistic practices behind privilege claims.
April 12, 2022
A D.C. federal judge reiterated Tuesday that he is skeptical he can sanction Google based on U.S. Department of Justice allegations that the search giant trained employees to help shield documents from discovery by making them appear privileged, but asked the parties to submit more information.
April 08, 2022
A D.C. federal judge indicated Friday he's unlikely to sanction Google based on U.S. Department of Justice allegations that the search giant trained employees to help shield documents from discovery by making them appear privileged, asserting during a hearing that there's no precedent for punishing pre-litigation conduct.