After a provincial judge rejected the tech giant’s obtain to decide the case ahead of time, Alphabet Inc. will have to defend itself in court against all of the US Justice Department’s says that it has a Google monopoly in website marketing systems.
” We’re going to let this go to tryout” as scheduled in September, US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said Friday at a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia. There are “way too many details in dispute”, she said.
Google requested that the event be decided before a trial, and that it be foreclosed. The business claimed that Google does n’t qualify as a monopoly and that it lacks the evidence that antitrust enforcement officials have failed to demonstrate that it controls at least 70 % of the market for open web display ads.
Antitrust-related lawsuits are frequently brought against companies that want to avoid or filter the issues that are raised at prosecution. The software giant persuaded a judge to dismiss some of the claims made by state attorneys general before the test, which took place last fall, in the Justice Department’s another antitrust lawsuit against Google over its research company.
The office sued Google next year, alleging that it had a monopoly on the virtual marketplace for videos and display ads.
After suing provincial government entities that purchased website ads, the organization requested a jury trial. After Google cut a cashier’s check for$ 2.3 million to support the government’s reported injuries, Brinkema decided last week that the situation would continue as a couch trial with no judge.
At Friday’s hearing, Brinkema even disqualified one of the authorities that Google had sought to visit at the September test, finding that his testimony was never “necessary or related” to the event.
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