Texas Google Antitrust Trial Delayed Pending Related DOJ Case
The case is the second antitrust lawsuit targeting Google’s advertising technology and potentially force a sale of some of the business.
Photographer: Damian Lemanski/BloombergA judge delayed an Aug. 11 trial against Alphabet Inc.’s Google over claims by a Texas-led group of states that the company illegally monopolized the market for tools to publish online display advertisements.
US District Judge Sean Jordan in Plano, Texas, will reschedule the trial after a related US Justice Department case is resolved. It’s the second delay for the case, which was initially scheduled for late March.