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Proposed revival of Google Maps antitrust claims scrutinized by US appeals court

By Mike Swift ( November 22, 2025, 01:52 GMT | Insight) -- Google pushed back on arguments by users of its mapping products trying to revive antitrust claims that center on the Google Maps terms of service, with a lawyer for the tech giant telling a three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that the terms do not preclude what plaintiffs Dream Big Media and Getify are trying to do. While the judges scrutinized the contractual language around the plaintiffs’ tying theory, they signaled no clear sense of how they might rule.Google argued that a panel of US appellate judges should not revive antitrust litigation that alleged Google Maps’ terms of service blocked plaintiffs from purchasing better quality digital-mapping products, saying the terms allow the plaintiffs to do what they claim they want....

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