In re: Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation
Case Number:
1:21-md-03010
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Multi-district Litigation, Class Action
Judge:
Firms
- deLeeuw Law
- Webber & Thies
- Gustafson Gluek
- Herman Jones LLP
- Free and Fair Litigation
- Kellogg Hansen
- Axinn Veltrop
- Freshfields
- DiCello Levitt
- Vorys
- Forman Watkins
- Ahdoot & Wolfson
- MoloLamken
- Robbins Geller
- Wiggin & Dana
- Gibson Dunn
- Boies Schiller
- Bartko Pavia
- Williams & Connolly
- McHugh Fuller
- Crueger Dickinson
- Cera LLP
- Girard Sharp
- Lockridge Grindal
- Yetter Coleman
- Shaffer Lombardo
- Grabar Law
- Ross Aronstam
- NastLaw
- Zwerling Schachter
- Capes Sokol
- Burke LLP
- Wilson Sonsini
- Hueston Hennigan
- Hausfeld LLP
- Berger Singerman
- Baker Botts
- Thompson Hine
- Shinder Cantor
- Cooper & Kirk
- Korein Tillery
- Bryan Cave
- Silverman Thompson
- Swanson Martin
- Wexler Boley
- Kressin Meador
- McCorvey Law LLC
- Fitzsimmons Law Firm
- Berger Montague
- Simonsen Sussman
- Cleary Gottlieb
- Cravath Swaine
- Flaherty Sensabaugh
- Norton Rose
- King & Spalding
- Lanier Law Firm
- The Office of Craig C. Reilly
- Keller Postman
- Dugan Law Firm
- Hartley LLP
- Sumner Meeker
- Aegis Law Group
- Mogin Law
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Taus Cebulash
- Farrell & Fuller
- Radice Law Firm
- Susman Godfrey
- Kirby McInerney
- Greene Ketchum
- Hissam Forman
- Latham & Watkins
Companies
- A360 Media LLC
- OpenX Technologies Inc.
- YouTube Inc.
- Penske Media Corp.
- Havas Media Group
- SPX Corporation
- Google LLC
- Havas Worldwide LLC
- Meta Platforms Inc.
- Dotdash
- Alphabet Inc.
- Index Exchange Inc.
- Gannett Co. Inc.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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September 26, 2025
Advertisers, Publishers Can Expand Google Ad MDL Markets
A New York federal judge on Thursday allowed publishers and advertisers in multidistrict litigation over Google's advertising placement technology to expand their claims to cover a worldwide scope, like the U.S. Department of Justice's successful similar case, finding it would not prejudice the tech giant.
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September 09, 2025
Google Says Ad Tech MDL Market Should Stay Within US
Google has urged a New York federal judge not to expand the scope of its advertising placement technology business as targeted by publishers and advertisers in multidistrict litigation, arguing the plaintiffs had their chance and cannot now latch onto the worldwide scope found in the Justice Department's successful case.
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July 21, 2025
Not Enough Similarities To Apply DOJ Ad Tech Win: Google
Google urged a New York federal judge not to let website publishers, advertisers and others lock the company into the Justice Department's win in a separate Virginia federal court monopolization lawsuit over its advertising placement technology business, arguing the cases have key differences in facts and circuit standards.