U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google's search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to suppress competition and inhibit innovation. Mehta outlined a timeline for a trial on the proposed remedies set for next spring and is expected to issue a decision by August 2025.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost the biggest antitrust challenge it has faced this summer when a US judge found that it illegally monopolized the search market. Now it’s facing the possibility that the result will be a forced breakup of the company.

For the first time since AT&T was dismantled into Baby Bells four decades ago, the US government is weighing the breakup of one of the world’s largest and most consequential monopolies: Google.