Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2026

Abstract

Over the last few years, antitrust plaintiffs have won important victories in cases against digital platforms. They’ve won important cases involving real estate associations, elite private colleges, sports leagues, pharmaceutical companies, pork processors, and health insurers. In some cases, they have secured record-breaking jury verdicts and redress for harmed individuals.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has been active too. Last year, a federal court held that Google illegally maintained monopolies in general internet search and related search advertising markets. That case is about access to the information we see and use to make decisions about how we want to live our lives. It was also the federal government’s first significant monopolization trial victory in more than two decades. We completed a second major monopolization trial: the Google digital advertising technology (ad tech) case. We also filed four other monopolization cases in the smartphone, live music, housing, and debit network industries. And outside of our Sherman Act § 2 work, we filed suit to halt competitor information exchanges in the agriculture industry that hurt growers and farmers and raise prices at the grocery store, algorithmic collusion in housing rental markets, and unwarranted limits on college athletes' mobility.

Disciplines

Antitrust and Trade Regulation | Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Law and Economics

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