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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  1. April 03, 2024

    Google's Win In Ad Tech Antitrust MDL To Get 2nd Circ. Look

    A group of Massachusetts-based gym and spa businesses informed a New York federal judge Wednesday they will be taking to the Second Circuit their challenge of the judge's order dismissing their antitrust claims in multidistrict litigation over Google's alleged monopoly in digital advertising.

  2. March 08, 2024

    Google Can't Shake Video Ad Tech Claims In MDL

    A New York federal court has refused to toss claims targeting Google's control over online video advertising from a defunct video publisher in the sprawling multidistrict litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing digital ad technology.

  3. March 01, 2024

    Google Gets Ad Tech Monopolization MDL Trimmed

    A New York federal judge on Friday threw out a number of claims in sprawling multidistrict litigation over Google's alleged monopoly in digital advertising, although the judge held that Google must continue to face limited claims from publishers and advertisers in several cases.

  4. February 14, 2024

    Google Again Targets 'Strategic' Texas AGs' Ad Tech Delays

    Google is hoping a newly appointed special master can finally force a coalition of state attorneys general led by Texas to hand over "fundamental information" it said Tuesday has long been improperly withheld from one of three cases targeting its dominance over display advertising placement auction technology.

  5. June 12, 2023

    Google Appealing Ad Tech Transfer To 2nd Circ.

    Google asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Monday to hold off sending a case from state enforcers accusing the company of monopolizing online display advertising to Texas while it appeals the transfer to the Second Circuit.

  6. March 30, 2023

    States Reaffirm Bid To Return Google Ad Tech Case To Texas

    A coalition of state-level enforcers on Thursday reaffirmed a push to take their suit accusing Google of building an online display advertising monopoly back to Texas, contending that the tech giant's effort to keep the case in multidistrict litigation ignores well-settled court precedent.

  7. March 23, 2023

    Google Fights Bid To Move AG's Ad Tech Case Back To Texas

    Google is pushing back against efforts from state-level enforcers to get their case accusing it of monopolizing the online display advertising market transferred out of multidistrict litigation and back to Texas, arguing a new law that enforcers cite does not apply retroactively.

  8. February 28, 2023

    States Want Google Suit Back In Texas Due To New Venue Law

    Empowered by a new federal law that gives state enforcers the right to prevent their antitrust lawsuits from being transferred to other districts, a Texas-led coalition accusing Google of monopolizing ad tech moved to transfer the case back from New York to Texas where it was first filed.

  9. February 24, 2023

    Google Says AGs Can't Tweak Consumer Law Claims Now

    The 14 state attorneys general suing Google for monopolizing the market for display advertising shouldn't get a fifth whack at crafting their state consumer protection claims, the tech behemoth has told a New York federal court.

  10. February 06, 2023

    Google Wants Advertisers' 'Recycled' Monopoly Claims Nixed

    Google has urged a New York federal court to toss six advertisers' consolidated putative class action alleging, as a part of larger multidistrict litigation, that the search giant's digital advertising business constitutes a monopoly, arguing that the advertisers' third crack at the claims are "attempts to recycle or repackage" failed allegations.