Google Advertising Antitrust Suit Headed to Trial in March 2024

A US antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Google’s advertising technology business will be headed to trial as soon as March 2024, a federal judge ruled Friday.

US Magistrate Judge John Anderson in Alexandria set dates for the case that will see all pretrial work finished by January, rejecting a proposal by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the Justice Department that would have extended that through July 2024. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema will hold a Jan. 18, 2024 hearing to officially set the trial date, he said.

The Justice Department sued Google in January after a multiyear investigation, its ...