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Google, Facebook urge JPML to centralize US ad tech antitrust suits in California; states, other plaintiffs oppose move

By Michael Acton ( July 29, 2021, 18:02 GMT | Insight) -- Google and Facebook appeared before the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation today to make the case for centralizing a slew of antitrust lawsuits over their alleged abuses in the digital advertising market in California federal court — including a major lawsuit filed in Texas by a group of state attorneys general. But lawyers for the state attorneys general and advertiser and publisher plaintiffs told the JPML it makes sense to allow the litigation to proceed separately given the different allegations and markets at play, and warned that centralization could slow down the progress of the Texas lawsuit in particular.Google and Facebook appeared before the US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation today to make the case for centralizing a slew of antitrust lawsuits over their alleged abuses in the digital advertising market in California federal court — including a major lawsuit filed in Texas by a group of state attorneys general....

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