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Google says potential $124 billion fine in US adtech suit 'legally unfounded'

By Mike Swift and Chris May ( December 12, 2024, 01:38 GMT | Insight) -- Google told a federal judge in newly unsealed motions for summary judgment that adtech privacy and consumer-protection claims by Texas and 16 other states could result in more than $120 billion in fines, a “legally unfounded and unprecedented multi-billion-dollar penalty” that should be thrown out or, at a minimum, heard in another court. Google also moved for summary judgment to throw out the states’ antitrust claims in the case, due to go to trial in March.Google told a federal judge that adtech privacy and consumer protection claims by Texas and 16 other states could result in up to $124 billion in fines, a “legally unfounded and unprecedented multi-billion-dollar penalty” that should be thrown out or, at a minimum, heard by other courts....

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