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Amit Mehta

Amit Mehta

U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia

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Google search monopoly case enters appeals phase

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Presiding over case; issued liability and remedies rulings

Google has paid Apple roughly $20 billion per year to be the default search engine on iPhones and Safari. In August 2024, a federal judge ruled this arrangement—and similar deals with Samsung and others—constituted an illegal monopoly. Now both sides are appealing: the Department of Justice wants Google broken up, while Google wants the entire case thrown out.

Updated Feb 11