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
- Axinn Veltrop
- Freshfields
- Vorys
- Forman Watkins
- Ahdoot & Wolfson
- MoloLamken
- Robbins Geller
- Boies Schiller
- Williams & Connolly
- DiCello Levitt
- McHugh Fuller
- Crueger Dickinson
- Yetter Coleman
- Cera LLP
- Girard Sharp
- Lockridge Grindal
- Shaffer Lombardo
- Grabar Law
- Korein Tillery
- Cravath Swaine
- Ross Aronstam
- NastLaw
- Wilson Sonsini
- Zwerling Schachter
- Gibson Dunn
- Capes Sokol
- Burke LLP
- Hausfeld LLP
- Berger Singerman
- Shinder Cantor
- Cooper & Kirk
- Silverman Thompson
- Swanson Martin
- Thompson Hine
- Wexler Boley
- Kressin Meador
- Bryan Cave
- McCorvey Law LLC
- Kellogg Hansen
- Fitzsimmons Law Firm
- Baker Botts
- Cleary Gottlieb
- Flaherty Sensabaugh
- Norton Rose
- Berger Montague
- King & Spalding
- Lanier Law Firm
- Keller Postman
- Bartko Pavia
- Dugan Law Firm
- Hartley LLP
- Sumner Meeker
- Mogin Law
- Lowey Dannenberg
- Taus Cebulash
- Farrell & Fuller
- Radice Law Firm
- Susman Godfrey
- Kirby McInerney
- Greene Ketchum
- Hissam Forman
Companies
- OpenX Technologies Inc.
- YouTube Inc.
- Havas Media Group
- SPX Corporation
- Meta Platforms Inc.
- Google LLC
- Havas Worldwide LLC
- Dotdash
- Alphabet Inc.
- Index Exchange Inc.
- Gannett Co. Inc.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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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.
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June 23, 2025
Google Foes Try To Hold Co. To DOJ's Ad Tech Win
Website publishers, advertisers and others asked a New York federal court to all but seal Google's fate in their multidistrict litigation targeting the company's advertising placement technology business by holding it to the liability findings against the search giant previously won by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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June 17, 2025
Google Opposes Advertisers' Ad Tech Class Cert Bid
Google told a New York federal court that the advertiser seeking to represent a class of more than 2 million members in multidistrict litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing key digital ad technology spent less than $500 on Google Ads during the class period.
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June 12, 2025
Google Fights MDL Plaintiffs' Sanctions Bid Over Lost Chats
Google is pushing back on a request for sanctions that a slew of advertisers and publishers have brought in their antitrust lawsuit over the company's advertising placement technology, saying the plaintiffs have not shown Google hid evidence amid the "mountains" of electronically stored information it provided.