March 10 Hearing Set on Google’s Motion to Transfer DOJ Case to SDNY

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria set a March 10 hearing for 10 a.m. EST on Google’s Feb. 17 motion to transfer DOJ’s antitrust complaint to the Southern District of New York, said a text-only entry Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-00108). Google wants DOJ’s complaint consolidated in SDNY with the other 19 cases sent there in 2021 by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Google called DOJ’s lawsuit just another in a series of “copycat” actions challenging “the size and success” of Google’s advertising technology business under the Sherman Act (see 2302230005).