Google and the Justice Department are set for a rematch of sorts on Monday when they return to court to argue about Google’s alleged monopolistic behavior over how ads are bought and sold on the internet.
The DOJ is fresh off a win in its search antitrust case against Google, where a federal judge in Washington, DC, agreed that Google had illegally monopolized the online search market. This time, the two parties will argue before a different judge in Virginia about whether Google has also illegally monopolized markets for advertising technology.
“This is kind of a one-two punch,” says Vanderbilt Law School antitrust professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth. “Google is probably licking its wounds from having lost the last one. And it would be…
