Meet the Plaintiffs in the United States v Google Antitrust Lawsuit

A. The Plaintiffs

1. The United States of America, acting at the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, and the States of Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin (Plaintiffs) brought this action under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, to restrain Google LLC from unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising (Search Ads), and general search text advertising (Text Ads) in the United States through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices, and to remedy the effects of this conduct. Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint, ECF. No. 94, at 2–3.

2. In addition, 38 other States and jurisdictions (the “Plaintiff States”) filed a separate action that incorporates the allegations in the DOJ Amended Complaint, while presenting additional factual allegations of unlawful monopoly maintenance by Google in the relevant markets. Case No. 20-cv-03715, ECF No. 1.

The Plaintiff States are: Colorado, Nebraska, Arizona, Iowa, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.