A federal judge on Friday provided the U.S. Justice Department upuntil the end of the year to overview how Google oughtto be penalized for unlawfully monopolizing the web search market and then prepare to present its case for enforcing the charges next spring
ByMICHAEL LIEDTKE AP innovation author
September 6, 2024, 4: 37 PM
A federal judge on Friday offered the U.S. Justice Department upuntil the end of the year to summary how Google oughtto be penalized for unlawfully monopolizing the web search market and then prepare to present its case for enforcing the charges next spring.
The loose-ended timeline sketched out by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta came throughout the veryfirst court hearing because he branded Google as a callous monopolist in a landmark judgment provided last month.
Mehta’s choice setoff the requirement for another stage of the legal procedure to figureout how Google oughtto be punished for years of misbehavior and required to make other modifications to avoid capacity future abuses by the dominant search engine that’s the structure of its web empire.
Attorneys for the Justice Department and Google were notable to reach a agreement on how the time frame for the charge stage needto unfold in the weeks leading up to Friday’s hearing in Washington D.C., triggering Mehta to guide them down the roadway that he hopes will outcome in a choice on the penalty before Labor Day next year.
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