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Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google will have to defend itself at trial against the U.S. Department of Justice’s claims of the tech giant’s monopoly in digital advertising after a federal judge rejected the company’s request to decide the case ahead of time, Bloomberg reported Friday.
According to the report, Google had asked for a summary judgment in the case, asking that it be decided before a trial. The search giant argued that it did not qualify as a monopoly, and that antitrust regulators had failed to demonstrate that it controls 70% of the market for digital ads shown on the open web, the report added.
Last week, Google avoided a jury trial in the case after agreeing to pay the U.S. government $2.3 million to cover the federal government’s claim of monetary damages
The Justice Department lawsuit aims to divide Google’s digital advertising business after claiming the tech titan has monopolized digital advertising.
It’s the second major antitrust suit against Google filed by the DOJ. The prior suit, filed by the Trump administration and still headed toward trial, charged Google with abusing market power in the Internet search market.
Google’s ad business also faces an antitrust suit from a group of attorneys general led by Texas AG Ken Paxton.