Other LanguagesIn recent years, Big Tech has been the focus of vigorous antitrust enforcement. Our office, along with many of our state and federal counterparts, is committed to protecting consumers from anticompetitive conduct in the Tech Industry, and has joined several of these cases.
Our office is currently litigating three lawsuits against Google.
First, in late 2020, Washington along with a coalition of 38 states filed a lawsuit against Google alleging the company illegally maintains its monopoly power over general search engines and related general search advertising markets. After a nine-week bench trial that began in September 2023, a federal judge ruled in August 2024 that Google is a monopolist. Litigation over remedies followed the liability trial, culminating with a three-week bench trial in the spring of 2025. In early September 2025, the federal judge issued its opinion summarizing the remedies it has ordered for Google's illegal maintenance of monopoly power.
Second, in 2021, Washington and 38 other state enforcers filed a second lawsuit against Google alleging that Google is excluding competition for mobile app distribution and in-app-payment services. The states reached a settlement in that case requiring Google to pay a total of $700 million and make changes to those services for which they have sought approval from the federal judge assigned to the matter.
Third, in 2022, Washington joined the DOJ and 16 other states in lawsuit alleging Google maintains an unlawful monopoly of online display advertising (“ad tech”). After a fifteen-day bench trial in September 2024, a federal judge ruled that Google unlawfully monopolized and tied the digital adverting markets for publishes and ad exchanges. A remedies trial before the federal judge is set to begin in September 2025.
You can learn more about these Google cases here, here, and here.
Our office also filed and resolved a lawsuit against Amazon, which shut down the Sold by Amazon third-party seller price-fixing program nationwide in early 2022. You can learn more about the basis for the lawsuit here.
Finally, our office joined the U.S. Department of Justice and a bipartisan group of 20 attorneys general in 2024 in an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for monopolizing the smartphone market and by restricting how developers and business can use the iPhone, stifling innovation and keeping prices artificially high. In June 2025, a New Jersey federal judge denied Apple's motion to dismiss this lawsuit. Litigation is ongoing. You can learn more about this case here.
For more information about our cases, please visit our cases page.
As a helpful resource, the Antitrust Division has prepared a presentation about Antitrust and the Tech Industry.