Google Ad Tech Antitrust Suit Will Go to Trial, Judge Rules
- Judge rejects request to decide case before September trial
- Justice Department alleges monopoly over advertising tech
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Alphabet Inc. will have to defend itself at trial against all of the US Justice Department’s claims of a Google monopoly in online advertising technology after a federal judge rejected the tech giant’s request to decide the case ahead of time.
“We’re going to let this go to trial” as scheduled in September, US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said Friday at a hearing in Alexandria, Virginia. There are “way too many facts in dispute,” she said.