Judge Leonie Brinkema named to oversee U.S. lawsuit against Google

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, one of the judges who stayed then-President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration into the United States, has been named to oversee the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google over its alleged abuse of dominance in online advertising technology. The government on Tuesday argued that Google should be forced to sell its ad manager suite, tackling a business that generated about 12 percent of Google’s revenues in 2021 but also plays a vital role in the search engine and cloud company’s overal…

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