Google Divestiture Rejected, Most Behavioral Remedies Accepted In Antitrust Suit

( September 3, 2026, 1:37 PM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia federal judge on Sept. 2 rejected proposed remedies that would have required Google LLC to divest portions of its advertising technology business but accepted most of the parties’ proposed behavioral remedies as modified by the court in a suit by the U.S. government and 17 states asserting that Google violated the Sherman Act by monopolizing the publisher ad server market and the ad exchange market and by unlawful tying....