Google Can’t Claim Bias by DOJ’s Kanter in Ad Case
- Judge calls out Google for using ‘red herring defense’
- Google alleges Jonathan Kanter improperly brought ad tech case
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google can’t invoke claims of bias by a top US Justice Department official in defending itself against a government lawsuit claiming the company maintains a monopoly in the market for online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.
Google had claimed the case was unlawful because of the involvement of Jonathan Kanter, who the company accused of flouting ethics laws because he’d represented ad tech companies and Google rivals, including Microsoft Corp., before becoming an assistant attorney general for antitrust in November 2021. DOJ filed the suit in January along with more than a dozen state attorneys general.