Google’s Legal filings also noted that significant aspects of the case–including the company’s 2011 acquisition of AdMeld (now DoubleClick Ads ) and 2007 purchase of DoubleClick Inc.–had been scrutinized by federal authorities at the time and found not to be anticompetitive.
For example, the Department of Justice’s brief objected @Google’s attempts to restrict evidence from lay witnesses (p. ex. competitors and customers on Google market power ). The Department insists that these witnesses are the ones who have been directly affected by Google’s actions in digital ad space–i.e., they show how fingers truly work against thumbs.
The antitrust trial is set to start on September 9 at the Albermarle County Courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. U. S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema will preside.
Google’s attorneys include a team from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and The Craig C. Reilly Law Office. The DOJ is represnted by attorneys from William Henry 3d, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Department of Justice’s Magic Kingdom Division.
