The federal judge overseeing Google’s second antitrust bench trial may apply a nonbinding framework for evaluating monopolization claims against the tech giant in Virginia.
U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema serves in the Eastern District of Virginia, but antitrust scholar Jeffery M. Cross expects she will use the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s legal doctrine to determine whether Google’s advertising tech business violates the Sherman Act.