Kovacevich: Supreme Court's Trinko precedent challenges the Google antitrust ruling
Adam Kovacevich · Behind the Scenes of the Google Antitrust Trial | Adam Kovacevich on TBPN · Apr 28, 2025 · at 11:16
Adam Kovacevich, CEO of Chamber of Progress, analyzes the legal reasoning in the federal ad tech antitrust decision against Google.
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“One of the big cases, that's a challenge for the court here is this case called Trinco, which is old, old Supreme court precedent, which basically has to do with what's called the duty to deal, which basically says like you as a customer, you as a business, even like a dominant business, have an obligation to help your rivals. And she caught in her ruling today. She, Did I, what I would call a creative interpretation to kind of get around that. That is the biggest question about whether this ruling survives appeal, and even up to the Supreme Court, because you know, that, that, that the creativity, you call it, of her ruling may not survive appeal.”
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