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Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government. Google gets a bench trial after sending unexpected check to Justice Department.
Google gets a bench trial after sending unexpected check to Justice Department.
"To secure this unusual posture, several weeks before filing the Complaint, on the eve of Christmas 2022, DOJ attorneys scrambled around looking for agencies on whose behalf they could seek damages," Google said. The US government lawsuit said that federal agencies bought over $100 million in advertising since 2019 and aimed to recover treble damages for Google's alleged overcharges on those purchases. "She likened receipt of the money, which was paid unconditionally to the government regardless of whether the tech giant prevailed in its arguments to strike a jury trial, as equivalent to 'receiving a wheelbarrow of cash.'"
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