Michigan and Nebraska join other states against Google ad tech
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Michigan and Nebraska, have joined other states against Alphabet's Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (GOOGL) alleging that the company broke antitrust law while running its digital advertising business.
The ad tech lawsuit along with Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Washington and West Virginia argues that Google (GOOG) should be forced to sell its ad manager suite because it illegally abused its online advertising dominance.
Google has denied any wrongdoing and has asked for dismissal of the lawsuit.
The Justice Department's ad tech lawsuit followed a separate lawsuit filed in 2020, at the end of the Trump administration, that accused Google of violating antitrust law to maintain its dominance in search, goes to trial in September.
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