SO What? How Statement of Objections Changes Google Case
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Google Inc. will finally get to see what the European Commission thinks it’s doing wrong when it reads the hundreds of pages of legal analysis and evidence that make up a formal statement of objections, or SO.
The SO allows the EU to set out its case, laying out where officials suspect a company has violated competition rules and citing evidence from complainants. It starts a new process in the more than four-year-old case that could lead to administrative hearings, court challenges or a settlement.