Google Asks Federal Court to Dismiss DOJ, Multistate Antitrust Complaint
Google’s alleged actions detailed in DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit were “lawful, justified, procompetitive” and carried out with legitimate business interests, the company argued (in Pacer) Friday at U.S. District Court in Washington (see 2101080055). It responded to an amended complaint (in…
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Pacer) from DOJ and various states, which claimed the platform signed exclusionary agreements, “including tying arrangements, and engaged in anticompetitive conduct to lock up distribution channels and block rivals.” The complaint cites agreements with distributors like Apple, LG, Motorola, Samsung, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Mozilla, Opera and UCWeb. Google requested the complaint be dismissed. The company argued it shares revenue through such agreements in order to be the default search service, and it denied it blocks “counterparties from dealing with Google’s competitors.”