In re: Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:21-md-03010

Court:

New York Southern

Nature of Suit:

Anti-Trust

Multi Party Litigation:

Multi-district Litigation, Class Action

Judge:

P. Kevin Castel

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Companies

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June 23, 2025
Google Foes Try To Hold Co. To DOJ's Ad Tech Win

Website publishers, advertisers and others asked a New York federal court to all but seal Google's fate in their multidistrict litigation targeting the company's advertising placement technology business by holding it to the liability findings against the search giant previously won by the U.S. Department of Justice.
June 17, 2025
Google Opposes Advertisers' Ad Tech Class Cert Bid

Google told a New York federal court that the advertiser seeking to represent a class of more than 2 million members in multidistrict litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing key digital ad technology spent less than $500 on Google Ads during the class period.
June 12, 2025
Google Fights MDL Plaintiffs' Sanctions Bid Over Lost Chats

Google is pushing back on a request for sanctions that a slew of advertisers and publishers have brought in their antitrust lawsuit over the company's advertising placement technology, saying the plaintiffs have not shown Google hid evidence amid the "mountains" of electronically stored information it provided.
June 03, 2025
Foes Urge Court To Assume Google Hid Evidence

Advertisers, publishers and other users of Google's online advertising placement technology come armed with receipts of the search giant's personnel apparently knowingly avoiding their discovery obligations, as the multidistrict litigation plaintiffs tee up a bid to sanction the company with a court presumption that deleted chats hide key evidence of monopolization.
May 05, 2025
Google Ads Advertisers Ask For Class Cert. In MDL

A group of advertisers in multidistrict litigation accusing Google of violating antitrust law through its control over key ad technology has asked a New York federal court to certify it as a class.
January 27, 2025
Pair Of Google Advertisers Must Arbitrate Ad Tech Claims

A New York federal court found that a pair of advertisers will have to arbitrate their claims against Google instead of trying to represent a class in the multidistrict litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing key digital advertising technology.
December 12, 2024
Rumble Gets Green Light To Join Google Ad Tech MDL

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation rejected Google's bid to prevent video-sharing site Rumble from having its antitrust claims over key digital advertising technology included in the consolidated litigation pending against the tech giant in New York.
November 19, 2024
Advertisers Fight Google's Arbitration Bid In Ad Tech MDL

A pair of advertisers seeking to represent a class in multidistrict litigation accusing Google of monopolizing key digital ad technology are fighting a bid to push their claims to arbitration, arguing Google's arbitration agreements are unenforceable.
October 29, 2024
Rumble Pushes To Join Google Ad Tech MDL

Video-sharing site Rumble has told the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation that its case accusing Google of monopolizing key digital advertising technology should be included in the consolidated litigation pending against the tech giant in New York.
October 08, 2024
Google Says Rumble Suit Too Late To Join Ad Tech MDL

Google wants to keep Rumble away from the consolidated litigation targeting the company's advertising placement technology dominance, telling the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation that the Canadian video-sharing service's May antitrust lawsuit comes too late and is too different to join in.