STATE OF COLORADO et al v. GOOGLE LLC

  1. January 07, 2022

    'Unrealistic' Bid For Google Revenue-Sharing Docs Mires DOJ

    A D.C. federal judge Friday said the U.S. Department of Justice is being "unrealistic" by demanding Google reveal the "methodology" used to calculate what it's willing to pay phone companies and mobile carriers to make Google Search their default when the payments largely result from individual negotiations.

  2. December 07, 2021

    DOJ Case Against Google Formally Split In Two

    The official order has come down splitting Google's upcoming antitrust monopoly trials in two, after the tech behemoth and the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers bringing suit convinced a D.C. federal court that getting liability out of the way first was the best way to go.

  3. November 30, 2021

    DOJ, AGs Get 45 More Days On Google Discovery, Split Trial

    A D.C. federal judge gave the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general an extra 45 days for discovery Tuesday in their monopolization case against Google, while insisting that the newly bifurcated case will go to trial in September 2023 "by hook or by crook."

  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. July 30, 2021

    Gov't Google Suits Implicate Trillions Of Pages Of Docs

    A dispute over when Google will produce samples of the journeys taken by search users highlights the enormous amount of raw data implicated in lawsuits brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general accusing the company of monopolizing search advertising.

  6. 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.

  7. March 22, 2021

    DOJ Blasts Google's 'Glacial' Pace In Antitrust Suit

    The U.S. Department of Justice lambasted Google for allegedly refusing to cough up more records as both sides prepare for a September 2023 trial in the government's landmark monopolization case, telling a D.C. federal judge that the tech giant has not justified withholding the documents.

  8. February 02, 2021

    DOJ Slams 'Paltry' Extra Discovery Allowance In Google Case

    Google's efforts to limit the U.S. Department of Justice and attorneys general to 70 depositions total between their two search monopolization cases amounts to an improper "do-over," the DOJ and Colorado state enforcers told a D.C. federal judge.

  9. January 21, 2021

    State AGs Must Catch Up With DOJ Case Against Google

    The state attorneys general pursuing a monopoly lawsuit against Google will have to speed up discovery after a Washington, D.C., federal judge said Thursday that a proposal to begin turning over investigative materials to the search giant in mid-March was too late to catch up with a parallel Justice Department case.

  10. January 08, 2021

    Google Judge To Sell Mutual Funds Holding Alphabet Stock

    The D.C. federal judge overseeing the dual monopoly lawsuits against Google from the U.S. Department of Justice and attorneys general said Friday that he directed his financial adviser to immediately sell mutual funds containing the tech giant's parent company Alphabet Inc. stock "to avoid any appearance of partiality."