‘Monumental’ antitrust case between Google, Justice Department begins in Washington, DC

An antitrust challenge against Google that the Justice Department is describing as a “monumental case” is kicking off Tuesday in Washington, D.C. 

The Justice Department and 11 attorneys general filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in October 2020 to “stop Google from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms