United States of America: Issued plaintiffs’ initial proposed final judgement in lawsuit against Google concerning its monopoly over search engines

On 20 November 2024, the plaintiff's initial proposed final judgement in the lawsuit against Google concerning its monopoly over search engines was issued. The lawsuit is the result of a complaint filed by multiple US States in late 2020, alleging Google of committing anticompetitive practices under the Sherman Act. The Court found Google guilty of unlawfully maintaining monopolies in August 2024. The plaintiffs’ initial proposed final judgement outlines remedies aimed at breaking Google's monopolistic practices, including prohibiting anti-competitive contracts, prohibiting the use of related products to foreclose competition, providing access to scale-dependent data, providing transparency in search text ads, and prohibition of limitations of distributors in their search engines.