Google Can’t Pay to Avoid Digital Ad Monopoly Suit, DOJ Says (1)

Alphabet Inc.'s Google can’t escape a trial over claims it monopolized the digital advertising market by sending the government a multimillion-dollar check, the Justice Department said.

Google took the “extraordinary step” of sending a process server to the offices of the Antitrust Division to deliver the cashier’s check on May 16 without notice or conferral, the DOJ and a group of plaintiff states said in a motion filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

There is no legal basis to grant Google’s motion to strike the government’s jury demand, the plaintiffs said. A federal ...