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      Google Doesn't Want Public to Listen In on Historic Antitrust Trial

      "While ordinary Americans can get their whole lives exposed in court, a trillion-dollar company is opposed to an accessible public trial and attempting to shroud their own proceedings in secrecy."

      Jake Johnson
      Sep 06, 2023

      Next week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. is set to begin hearing arguments in what's been described as potentially the most consequential antitrust case in the United States in decades.

      Google, the defendant in the high-profile case, doesn't want the public to listen in.

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      EU Praised for Urging Google Breakup Over Online Ad Market Domination

      "Antitrust enforcers worldwide agree: We must break up Google’s advertising monopoly," said one expert. "As the commission said in its statement, it is the only way to stop Google's anti-competitive behavior."

      Jessica Corbett
      Jun 14, 2023

      The European Commission won praise from anti-monopoly campaigners and experts around the world on Wednesday by declaring that Google's dominance of online advertising violates competition rules and should be resolved with forced divestment.

      The commission—an executive arm of the European Union—detailed the preliminary findings of its probe in a statement of objections on Google's practices in advertising technology, or ad tech. The company operates two ad buying tools, Google Ads and DV 360; a publisher ad server, DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP); and an ad exchange, AdX.

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      An American Airlines plane lands on a runway near a parked JetBlue plane at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on July 16, 2020.

      'Another Big Win for DOJ Antitrust': Judge Blocks JetBlue, American Airlines Alliance

      The ruling forces the airlines "to continue competing, eliminating anti-competitive revenue-sharing incentives and setting an important precedent against future consolidation in the industry," said one expert.

      Jessica Corbett
      May 20, 2023

      A Massachusetts-based federal judge on Friday sided with the Biden administration plus six states and the District of Columbia, which launched an antitrust challenge to American Airlines and JetBlue Airways' "de facto merger" for Boston and New York City.

      The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) along with the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and D.C. filed a civil lawsuit over the airlines' Northeast Alliance (NEA) in September 2021.

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