A Virginia judge today found Google liable under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act for anticompetitive behavior and monopolization of the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web display advertising. However, the court dismissed a claim that Google monopolizes the advertiser ad network market. Like the D.C. court that found Google liable under Section 2 of the Sherman Act for monopolization of search services in August 2024, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia also declined to sanction Google “at this juncture” despite the company’s “systemic disregard of the evidentiary rules regarding spoliation of evidence and its misuse of the attorney-client privilege,” which Brinkema said “may well be sanctionable.”

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