The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was handed a legal victory in its antitrust lawsuit against Google. On April 17, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled against Google in this lawsuit,

Alphabet's Google plans to appeal against the "adverse" portion of the court decision in the U.S. Department of Justice’s monopoly case against the technology giant. On Thursday U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google liable for "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges.

A federal court in Alexandria ruled that Google’s advertising technology unit is an illegal monopoly, in the second of two Justice Department antitrust cases against the tech giant. The decision by U.