A federal judge said earlier this month that he would give Google until August 2025 to decide whether to impose penalties on its antitrust lawsuits, after ruling that the company abused its monopoly power over the search industry, according to The New York Times.
Judge Amit P. Mehta set a timeline for the steps in Google’s antitrust case in a hearing Friday in Washington, D.C., that could upend the way people find information on the Internet. Prosecutors have until the end of the year to submit a proposal that could either target the $1 billion Google paid Apple for priority placement or order Google to sell off part of its business.
But a lot can change in a year, especially with the upcoming US presidential election. Both Republican and Democratic donors are reportedly asking their candidates to shake up America’s tight regulatory environment. The outcome of the Google Search antitrust lawsuit could come up on the table in those discussions.
