( October 19, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google told a US appeals court a lower court “crashed through the guardrails” set by the circuit and Supreme Court to ensure that antitrust law is not misused to punish — and therefore deter — vigorous competition by ruling against it an antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice and state plaintiffs. “Labeling Google’s browser agreements ‘exclusive dealing,’ as the district court did, does not make them exclusionary. Indeed, the agreements were not exclusive deals at all. Apple and Mozilla remained free to distribute and promote rival search engines, and they did so,” it argued.See attached file. ...
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