By Mike Scarcella
(Reuters) -An American judge set a hearing of May 2 to discuss the appeals that the United States Ministry of Justice and a group of states could ask the court to impose on Google after deciding that the alphabet unit illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology.
Friday, in an order, the American district judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, set the hearing to have an early and wide meaning of the Ministry of Justice and States on the remedies that could be in question, before embarking on a closely targeted path.
The hearing will take place after Brinkema in a successful order on April 17 found that Google is responsible for “the acquisition and the voluntary maintenance of monopoly power” in the markets for the advertising servers of the publisher and the market for exchanging announcements which are between buyers and sellers.
(Report by Mike Scarcella)
