{"id":2027109,"date":"2023-09-10T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-who-holds-googles-fate-in-his-hands\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T07:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:17:05","slug":"meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-who-holds-googles-fate-in-his-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-who-holds-googles-fate-in-his-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the judge who decides Google&#8217;s destiny, appointed by Obama."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeet-the-obama-appointed-judge-who-holds-googles-fate-in-his-hands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027109&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>ANTITRUST\u200c CASE OF THE CENTURY:\u2064 WHAT\u2063 TO EXPECT \u2063AS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT V.\u2063 GOOGLE CASE BEGINS<\/h2>\n<p>One judge holds \u200bthe power to determine the \u2062fate of \u2062Google as it faces allegations of monopolizing the internet\u2063 search sector. Judge Amit Mehta, appointed by President \u200bObama, presides over the Department of Justice&#8217;s antitrust \u200ccase against Google. The case revolves \u200daround the government&#8217;s\u200c claim that Google has unfairly limited competition by\u200d securing deals to have its search engine set as the default option on various mobile devices and \u2062browsers.\u200c With over nine years of experience in the District Court for the\u200b District of Columbia, Judge Mehta&#8217;s decisions\u200b will play a crucial role in shaping the future of the\u2063 world&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-baidu-beats-quarterly-revenue-estimates-cheers-generative-ai-progress\/\" title=\"Baidu surpasses revenue expectations, celebrates AI advancements.\">largest search engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Google vs. DOJ:\u2062 A Nine-Week Trial<\/h3>\n<p>Under Judge Mehta&#8217;s watchful eye, \u200cthe trial \u200bbetween Google and the DOJ will commence on Tuesday and span nine \u2062weeks. The \u2064focus of the case will be on \u200bthe agreements made between Google, web browser\u2062 developers, and mobile \u200dphone manufacturers, which establish Google as the default search engine. The Department \u2063of Justice argues that this practice\u2062 hampers \u200bthe \u2064ability of other companies \u2062to compete.<\/p>\n<p>In an August ruling, Judge Mehta narrowed the scope of the \u200dcase to concentrate\u200b on the specific\u200c contracts rather than broader allegations of monopolistic behavior.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A dominant firm\u2064 like Google does \u200bnot violate the law, however, \u200bmerely because it occupies a monopoly market position,&#8221; Mehta wrote. &#8220;It must act in a\u2064 manner that produces\u200c anticompetitive effects in the defined markets. That is, a company with \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-obama-appointed-judge-who-holds-googles-fate-in-his-hands\/\" title=\"Introducing the judge who decides Google's destiny, appointed by Obama.\">monopoly\u2064 power acts\u2062 unlawfully<\/a> only when its\u2064 conduct stifles competition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Appointed to the\u2063 court on December\u2062 22, \u20632014, Judge Mehta&#8217;s \u200bbackground \u200dincludes a \u2062B.A. \u2063in political science and economics from Georgetown University and a \u2064J.D. \u2064from the \u2063University\u2063 of Virginia\u2062 School of Law. He clerked for Ninth Circuit Judge Susan Graber and worked at\u200b the legal firm Zuckerman Spaeder before \u2062serving as a public defender in\u200c D.C. and eventually returning to Zuckerman Spaeder, specializing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunters-world-biden-son-had-tentacles-in-dark-corners-of-the-world-far-beyond-china-ukraine\/\" title=\"Hunter\u2019s World: Biden Son Had Tentacles In Dark Corners Of the World Far Beyond China, Ukraine\">white-collar crime<\/a> and business disputes.<\/p>\n<p>Given his limited experience \u2064in technology policy and\u200d antitrust matters, it \u200cremains \u2064uncertain how Judge Mehta will rule\u2062 in the DOJ v. Google\u200c case. \u2063One notable\u200b case in his\u200c career involved blocking a $3.5 billion Sysco deal\u2062 for US Foods in\u2064 2015 on antitrust grounds, following opposition from regulators, resulting in the termination\u2063 of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Judge Mehta gained recognition for granting Congress access\u200d to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s \u200bcourt records in 2019. He is currently overseeing\u2062 the trial of former Trump White House adviser\u200b Peter Navarro,\u2063 who was found guilty by a federal jury \u2063for \u2062disregarding calls from the House\u200c Jan.\u200c 6 \u2063committee to provide documents and testimony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ \u2062MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One judge, Amit Mehta, will decide if Google is a monopoly and will face consequences for allegedly dominating internet search. Mehta oversees the Department of Justice&#8217;s antitrust case, focusing on allegations that Google restricted competition by making exclusive deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2027110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}