Google Asks EU’s Top Court to Overturn Record Antitrust Fine

Jan. 20, 2022, 8:00 PM UTC

Google asked the European Union’s top court to strike down a 2.4 billion-euro ($2.7 billion) antitrust fine that bolstered regulators’ crackdown on big tech.

The U.S. tech giant said it filed a challenge at the EU Court of Justice “because we feel there are areas that require legal clarification” from the bloc’s top judges, according to an emailed statement.

The U.S. search giant wants the EU’s top court to overturn a November rulingthat backed antitrust enforcers’ 2017 finding that Google breached competition rules. Judges supported the EU’s view that Google shouldn’t favor its own shopping service over rivals, an ...

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