Google could be hit by antitrust suits as soon as this summer
The investigation by states and U.S. territories, which involves more than 50 attorneys general, is slightly behind the Justice Department’s probe, but the group is on track to decide on a suit by this fall, the people said.by the coronavirus pandemic, which has created hurdles for typical pre-litigation steps such as bringing witnesses in for formal questioning.
The people knowledgeable about the probes spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case publicly. The Wall Street Journal was theThe Federal Trade Commission is pursuing its own separate probe of potential antitrust abuses in the tech industry, including past mergers by Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.
In public comments Thursday, Paxton accused Google of delaying the investigation by filing “ludicrous filings just to slow us down." A dispute over experts hired by the states led to a several-month delay in Google's production of documents, and even now the company is still moving slowly in turning over evidence.
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