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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al v. GOOGLE LLC

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Case Number:

1:20-cv-03010

Court:

District Of Columbia

Nature of Suit:

Anti-Trust

Judge:

Amit P. Mehta

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  1. November 24, 2021

    Gov't Wants More Time For Discovery In Google Search Case

    The U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers asked a D.C. federal court for three extra months to complete discovery in the landmark monopolization case targeting Google's search and search advertising operations, saying it wouldn't impact the slated 2023 trial date.

  2. October 28, 2021

    Judge Won't Make Google Refresh Docs 'Through Trial'

    A D.C. federal judge suggested Thursday that limits may be necessary on the Justice Department's efforts to obtain information from Google ahead of a trial over the company's alleged monopolization of search and search advertising, even if Google's agreements to maintain search primacy are continuously updating.

  3. October 05, 2021

    Google Seeks Docs From Yelp Executive In Monopoly Case

    Google urged a D.C. federal judge to make Yelp hand over documents from a senior public policy executive who led the company's outreach for claims against the search giant that ultimately appeared in the government's antitrust case.

  4. September 28, 2021

    DOJ Bars Google Drive For Sharing Docs In Monopoly Case

    Google's legal team is spending days burning information onto hard drives because Justice Department security protocols prevent the sharing of discovery via the cloud, the parties told the D.C. federal judge handling the search and search advertising monopolization case on Tuesday.

  5. 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.

  6. August 31, 2021

    DOJ Using 'Hammer' For 'Scalpel' Google Discovery: Judge

    A D.C. federal judge criticized the Justice Department during a status conference Tuesday for what he described as an overly broad demand for Google to turn over information on some 25,000 documents the search giant had redacted or withheld in other antitrust probes over the last 14 years.

  7. August 19, 2021

    Apple Created 'Roadblocks' To DOJ's Google Suit, Court Told

    A D.C. federal judge tried Thursday to resolve a discovery dispute between the U.S. Department of Justice and Apple, one of the most crucial third parties to the government's antitrust case against Google, and apparently a major thorn in the DOJ's side as discovery proceeds.

  8. August 18, 2021

    Apple Says DOJ Is Asking It For Too Much Info In Google Case

    Apple said it had been negotiating with the Department of Justice in good faith when the agency "abruptly" ended discussions about discovery materials and raised an emergency dispute to the court, in a series of ongoing antitrust suits against Google.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.