Judge hands Google partial defeat in ad tech monopoly case

MANHATTAN (CN) — The federal judge overseeing a multidistrict antitrust case against tech giant Google over its digital advertising technology business ruled Tuesday in favor of online publishers and advertisers who pointed to findings of anticompetitive dominance by Google in an antitrust trial in Northern Virginia this year.

U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel granted partial summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain the Daily Mail, owner of the MailOnline newspaper and Inform Inc., a digital media company. Castel abrred Google from trying to relitigate the antitrust conclusions from the case brought the Justice Department in the Eastern District of Virginia.

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