AdvertisementThe antitrust trial, which began on Monday and is expected to last another month, has been configured as a bench trial.
The case is different from a different Google antitrust trial decided earlier this year, where a judge found the company illegally monopolized the search market.
AdvertisementThe Justice Department brought five different counts against Google under the Sherman Act, the landmark 1890 law that allows for the Justice Department to break up monopolies.
AdvertisementAccording to a couple of professors who the Justice Department hired to do the math, that all added up to $2,289,751.
At the end of June 7 hearing, Brinkema applauded Google and the Justice Department for their clever legal arguments.
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