![]() In November, Google settled with 40 states over the tracking of user location, paying $391 million. Justice’s search-related case is set for trial on Sept. focused on alleged search-related and advertising market monopolistic behavior. Google still faces several major antitrust lawsuits filed by the Department of Justice and other government agencies across the U.S. The complaint filed in a Northern California federal court echoed similar allegations that mobile game maker Epic Games made against Google that is scheduled to go to trial in November.Īpple prevailed in a separate suit Epic filed against it over the separate app store it runs exclusively for iPhones, with a federal appeals court upholding in April its sole control of app distribution. “We don’t have a comment at this time,” said Google spokesperson Peter Shottenfels. Terms of the temporary agreement bar the parties from disclosing its details for now, according to the Utah attorney general’s office, the lead plaintiff. The agreement, cited in a court filing late Tuesday by both sides, is subject to approval by the state attorneys general and the board of directors of Google’s parent company, the execution of an agreement and court approval. Thirty-six states and the District of Colombia have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of app distribution for the software that runs most of the world’s cellphones.
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