A US judge ruled in April 2025 that Google's publisher tools violated antitrust law, in a mixed decision

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On Apr 17, 2025, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a mixed decision in the Justice Department's case against Google LLC, Alphabet reported. The ruling found that the Justice Department failed to show that Google's advertiser tools, or its acquisitions of DoubleClick and AdMeld, were anticompetitive, but that Google's publisher tools violated antitrust laws by excluding rivals. Alphabet said Google planned to appeal the adverse portion of the decision. The source is Alphabet's 8-K, a US company's report of a material event, with a date of report of Apr 17, 2025.1^,2^,3^,4