Geoff Manne on the Google Search Antitrust Case
ICLE President Geoffrey A. Manne was quoted by The Dispatch in a story about the U.S. Justice Department’s proposed remedies in the Google Search antitrust case. You can read the full piece here.
If you want to do a deeper dive on the legal side of this case, I’d direct you to Geoffrey Manne’s “A Critical Analysis of the Google Search Antitrust Decision.” Manne used to be my boss, so blame him for any errors I make in antitrust law. But this piece does a good job going into all of the legal minutiae, and especially the problem of bifurcation, which is when a case is split into two parts, the liability phase and the remedy phase. With Google, the DOJ separated the arguments over harm from the arguments over remedies. Manne summarized the big takeaway on X: