{"id":28012,"date":"2023-04-28T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-judge-denies-googles\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T15:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:54:24","slug":"us-judge-denies-googles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-judge-denies-googles\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge denies Google&#8217;s motion to dismiss advertising antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google&#8217;s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology, saying the government&#8217;s case was strong enough to go forward.<\/p>\n<p>The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January, has argued that Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite. Google has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to deny the defendant&#8217;s motion to dismiss,&#8221; Judge Leonie Brinkema said in a federal court in Virginia. Google is a unit of Alphabet Inc. <\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s motion is the company&#8217;s latest effort to end costly, time-consuming antitrust lawsuits. It also asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss claims in a 2020 lawsuit filed by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Arguing for Google, Eric Mahr said that the Justice Department failed to allege a high enough market share, 70%, to be able to say that Google had market power.<\/p>\n<p>Brinkema, however, said that there were factors beyond market share to consider, for example if a company was guilty of &#8220;rapacious conduct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brinkema also took issue with Mahr&#8217;s argument that the government had reviewed Google&#8217;s deals to buy DoubleClick and Admeld, both more than 10 years ago, to increase its clout in ad tech, noting that the government said it made a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Mahr also argued that the Justice Department failed to show that advertisers suffered any damages because of Google&#8217;s actions. He also said the government improperly excluded Facebook and others in its definition of the market, calling them &#8220;obvious substitutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Diane Bartz; editing by Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-judge-denies-googles\/file-photo-a-3d-printed-google-logo-is-seen-in-this-6\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0RL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0RL-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google&#8217;s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology, saying the government&#8217;s case was strong enough to go forward. The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January, has argued that Google should be forced to sell its ad manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-28012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-domestic","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportBusinessNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0RL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28058,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012\/revisions\/28058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}