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Antitrust at the Agencies: Moderation in All Things Edition
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Judge Amit P. Mehta’s memorandum opinion in the Google Search case has dropped. It’s 230 pages, and I’ve merely skimmed it. A careful discussion–from me or anyone else–will wait a bit. For now, the remedies are quite a bit more than Google had proposed, but at the same time, a good deal less than the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) wanted.
Among other things, Judge Mehta rejected the DOJ’s proposed structural relief, and for good reasons. He does not order the divesture of the Chrome browser, in part because: “Plaintiffs do not satisfy the Circuit’s ‘clearer indication of a significant causal connection’ test for structural remedies.” He also doesn’t order the divestiture of Android (one of the DOJ’s contingent proposals).