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Judge Brinkema Spares Google's Ad Tech From Breakup, Orders Behavioral Remedies Instead
On September 2 Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the Justice Department's request to force divestiture of Google's advertising technology business, sixteen months after her April 2025 finding that Google illegally monopolized two ad tech markets. She accepted most of the parties' proposed behavioral remedies as modified, declined to require Google to sell DoubleClick for Publishers, and declined to order the DFP technology open-sourced. The full opinion with the specific remedies stays under seal for 14 days while the parties propose redactions.
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