Companies Alphabet Inc FollowWASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Texas won the latest round in its antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Monday as a U.S. judicial panel ordered the case returned to federal court in Texas. At Google's request the lawsuit had been moved in August 2021 to a federal court in New York, where other advertising technology cases were being heard. Texas had asked for the lawsuit to be moved back after the U.S. Congress passed the Venue Act in 2022 that grants state attorneys general the right to choose where an antitrust lawsuit will be litigated. The Texas lawsuit accuses Google of violating the law by dominating the process that advertisers use to put ads online. And states led by Utah filed a lawsuit in 2021 saying the company broke antitrust law in handling its play store.

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Persons: Texas Attorney General's, Karen Caldwell, Diane Bartz, Chris Reese, Mark Porter, Aurora Ellis Organizations: WASHINGTON, Texas, Alphabet's Google, U.S, Congress, Google, Texas Attorney, Multidistrict, Thomson Locations: Texas, New York, The Texas, Utah