AAI’s Kathleen Bradish Talks Google Search Remedies Decision with ITIF

AAI’s Vice President and Director of Legal Advocacy, Kathleen Bradish, spoke on the panel, DOJ v. Google: The Remedies Decision and the Future of Search, with the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. From the description:

The long-anticipated decision by U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta in the remedies phase of the Justice Department’s case against Google may go down as one of the most consequential antitrust opinions ever issued by a district court. Judge Mehta previously ruled in DOJ’s favor, finding that Google’s agreements with third-party browsers and Android manufacturers to make Google their default search engine were anticompetitive. And while he ultimately decided not to break up Google, DOJ is still claiming a win, so it’s important to parse the remedies he did impose. Did DOJ really get what it wanted? Are Judge Mehta’s remedies legally defensible, or will Google be able to scale back some of the relief on appeal? And what are the chances the remedies ultimately prove moot if Google prevails in its appeal on the merits of the earlier liability decision?

• Kathleen W. Bradish, Vice President and Director of Legal Advocacy, American Antitrust Institute, Panelist
• Joseph V. Coniglio, Director, Schumpeter Project on Competition Policy, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Moderator
• Herbert Hovenkamp, James G. Dinan University Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Panelist
• Diana Moss, Vice President and Director of Competition Policy, Progressive Policy Institute, Panelist
• Brian Scarpelli, Senior Global Policy Counsel, ACT | The App Association, Panelist