US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has been named to oversee the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google over its alleged abuse of dominance in online advertising technology.
The government on Tuesday argued that Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, tackling a business that generated about 12 percent of Google’s revenues in 2021 but also plays a vital role in the search engine and cloud company’s overall sales.
Google said on Wednesday that the complaint was “without merit.” According to a filing to the docket late Tuesday, Brinkema, 78 and whose court is in Alexandria, Virginia, near Washington, was assigned to oversee the case. The government has asked for a jury trial.
Related: DOJ Sues Google Over Alleged Advertising Monopoly
It is the second antitrust lawsuit filed by the department, with the first coming near the end of the Trump administration in 2020. That will go to trial in September.
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