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Google Faces Greater Threat of Forced Ad Unit Sale From U.S. Lawsuit

The U.S. government is more likely to force Google to divest a key business with an antitrust lawsui

Google Faces Greater Threat of Forced Ad Unit Sale From U.S. Lawsuit

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The Justice Department&#39;s suit seeks at minimum the sale of Google’s ad manager suite, among other things.</p><p>The federal &#34;complaint has a degree of specificity that the other Google complaint does not,&#34; New York University law professor Harry First said. &#34;That indicates to me that they are very serious about actually changing the structure of Google&#39;s ad tech business.&#34;</p><p>The Texas Attorney General&#39;s Office did not respond to a request for comment while the Justice Department declined to comment. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p><p>States periodically sue companies for alleged violations of antitrust law, but the federal government sometimes either intervenes directly or files its own suit to assert its nationwide perspective.</p><p>Legal experts said that while judges don&#39;t always defer to the federal government when it steps into state antitrust disputes, the opinions of the DOJ and U.S. Federal Trade Commission can factor heavily in their decisions.</p><p>For example, after New York and 12 other states sued to block the merger of wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint in 2019, the U.S. government argued the deal should go forward because it would improve wireless coverage in rural areas.</p><p>In that case, the DOJ urged the court to give weight to its “uniform, nationwide perspective&#34; and deny the states&#39; request for an injunction blocking the deal. The court agreed, and the merger later went through with certain conditions in a separate settlement brokered by the Justice Department.</p><p>“If the ultimate goal is to change the structure of the company, the federal government is in a much stronger position,” Syracuse University law professor Shubha Ghosh said.</p><p>Google also faces two largely parallel antitrust lawsuits by states and the federal government alleging unlawful dominance in online searching. 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