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Google to face Texas jury to decide liability in states' adtech claims

By Mike Swift ( June 23, 2025, 20:51 GMT | Comment) -- A Texas federal judge ruled that a jury, rather than the judge, will decide key liability issues on a Texas-led coalition of 17 states and territories' allegations that Google’s adtech business violates state antitrust and deceptive trade practice laws. While the states' federal antitrust claims will be decided by the judge, claims involving 12 state antitrust statutes and 15 state deceptive trade practice allegations will go to a jury in a trial due to begin Aug. 11.Google is facing a jury trial in a regulatory challenge to its adtech business by Texas and other states in which regular Americans who probably use its products — rather than a federal judge — would decide whether the tech giant violated state antitrust and consumer protection laws....

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