The State Of Texas, et al V Google, LLC

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. February 03, 2023

    Google's Antitrust Trouble Is Piling Up

    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.

  4. September 02, 2021

    Dems Call For Criminal Inquiry Into Google-Facebook Ad Deal

    Democratic U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal urged the U.S. Department of Justice to open its own investigation into 'Jedi Blue,' a 2018 agreement between Google and Facebook that allegedly sought to kill competitive bidding for advertising space.

  5. August 05, 2021

    Texas Drops Some Google Damages Claims To Avoid Transfer

    The Texas-led coalition of attorneys general accusing Google of monopolizing the display advertising market moved Wednesday to drop the only antitrust damages claims that the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation could use to combine the enforcer case with private proposed class actions for trial.

  6. July 29, 2021

    MDL Objections In Big Tech Ad Monopoly Suits Perplex Judge

    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."

  7. July 23, 2021

    Judge Demands Specifics From La., SC In Texas' Google Case

    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.

  8. July 08, 2021

    Google Vs. The World: 4 Gov't Suits, 3 EU Fines And Counting

    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.

  9. June 18, 2021

    Louisiana AG Wants To Join Texas' Google Antitrust Suit

    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.

  10. June 04, 2021

    Google Wants Texas Antitrust Case Included In MDL

    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.