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Amit Mehta

Amit Mehta

U.S. district judge who oversaw the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case

Appears in 5 stories

Born: 1971, Patan
Education: University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University, Franklin High School

Last updated Nov 11, 2026

Stories

Justice Department moves to erase Bannon's conviction with no party opposing it

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Dismissed the remaining case at the department's request

Steve Bannon was convicted by a jury in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress and served four months in prison. On November 5, 2026, the Justice Department asked the judge who presided over that trial to erase the conviction. Bannon's lawyers did not object.

Updated 6 hours ago

Google search monopoly case enters appeals phase

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Presiding over remedies implementation; said at a hearing he was 'increasingly concerned' that preparing the ordered remedies is taking too long

Google told the D.C. Circuit on October 19 that its default-search deals with Apple and Mozilla were lawful competition, not exclusion, in its last brief before oral argument. The company is appealing both the 2024 finding that it illegally maintained a search monopoly and the remedies Judge Amit Mehta ordered in 2025.

Updated 4 days ago

Judge overturns DOE clean energy grant cancellations tied to states' votes

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Presiding over the grant termination cases

A federal judge ordered the Energy Department to restore $82.1 million in clean energy grants it cancelled in October 2025, ruling the cuts violated the Fifth Amendment's equal protection guarantee by singling out grantees in states that voted for Kamala Harris. A year on, most of the money is still frozen: about 61% of the 321 cancelled awards remain in disputes with the agency, and projects the department said it would keep have received almost nothing.

Updated Oct 28

Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust suits over Google AI search

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Dismissed both suits on 2026-09-30

A federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media over Google's AI Overviews. Judge Amit Mehta ruled the publishers never struck a deal with Google; they only expected that indexing their content would bring search traffic, and an expectation is not an agreement.

Updated Oct 20

Clean energy project cancellations sweep the US after federal rollback

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As of September 2026: Issued stipulated judgments finding DOE grant cancellations illegal

Since January 2025, companies and the federal government have cancelled or downsized 216 large-scale clean energy projects across the US. The abandoned projects represent $68.2 billion in capital investment and 468,000 jobs that are no longer supported, according to analysis by BW Research for the clean energy group E2.

Updated Sep 26