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Google is facing a new multi-state lawsuit, led by Texas, that accuses the company of abusing its “monopolistic power”, the latest in a slew of major legal efforts to rein in big tech. In a video announcing the suit on Wednesday, the Texas attorney generalcharged Google with engaging in anticompetitive behavior, particularly in the online advertising market. Texas argues that the company dominates the pathways by which an advertisement gets from the agency that produces it on to a web… Source link

By Diane Bartz, Paresh Dave WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday, accusing it of working with Facebook Inc in an unlawful manner that violated antitrust law to boost its already-dominant online advertising business.The states asked that the Alphabet Inc-owned company, which controls a third of the global online advertising industry, compensate them for damages and sought “structural relief,” which is usually interpreted as forcing a company to divest… Source link

Sundar Pichai of Google testifies before the House Judiciary Committee as seen via YouTube on a laptop in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020. Carolyn Van Houten | The Washington Post | Getty Images Google is set to face a new antitrust lawsuit from a group of state attorneys general led by Texas, this time targeting its advertising technology services. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a video announcing the lawsuit that Google has used its alleged monopoly power to control pricing and… Source link

Emmanuel Duron was arrested and charged with assault after attacking a football referee. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP) Emmanuel Duron was already facing an assault charge for blindsiding a referee during a high school football game in Texas. On Monday he learned that the attack will cost him the rest of his high school athletic career. Members of Texas’ University Interscholastic League executive committee voted 5-0 on Monday to suspend Duron from competing in athletics for the… Source link

Former Baylor coach Art Briles resigned from his post as the head coach of Mount Vernon High School on Monday, the school announced. Briles, the disgraced former Bears coach who was in charge during a massive sexual assault scandal at the university, had been with the Texas high school for two seasons. Prior to that, he had a short coaching stint in Italy. Briles finished with a 20-6 overall record at Mount Vernon. They fell in the Texas 3A Div. I state semifinals last week. “After coaching… Source link

By Jan Wolfe and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump and 17 U.S. states on Wednesday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four states. Trump, defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election, filed a motion with the court asking the nine justices to let him intervene and become a plaintiff in the suit filed on Tuesday by… Source link

Texas A&M’s College Football Playoff hopes are alive and well. The Aggies, ranked No. 5 in the country, overcame a slew of self-inflicted mistakes and staged a fourth-quarter comeback to beat Auburn 31-20 on the road on Saturday. A&M dominated the first half but led just 14-10 at the break and later fell behind 20-14 entering the fourth quarter. That’s when a mistake by Auburn flipped A&M’s fortunes. After converting on a third-and-long play, the Aggies had a first down at the 20-yard… Source link

A high school football player in Texas was escorted from the game by police on Thursday. (Ben Hasty/Reading Eagle via Getty Images, file) A high-stakes Texas high school football game turned ugly on Thursday when a defensive lineman attacked an official after being ejected from the game. Edinburg High School took on PSJA High School with a berth in the state playoffs on the line. The Monitor’s Andrew McCulloch was on the scene to cover the game and documented the attack. During the first… Source link

AUSTIN, Texas—Eight high-ranking employees of the Texas attorney general’s office reached out to law-enforcement authorities in September with a bold accusation, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month. They claimed that their boss, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, had illegally used his office to interfere with an FBI investigation into a campaign donor. In the weeks after the employees notified the attorney general’s office of their claims, all eight were… Source link

Texas’ 23-20 home loss to No. 13 Iowa State on Friday can also double as a Rorschach test on how you view the tenure of Texas coach Tom Herman. Is he close, so achingly close, to the top of the Big 12? Or is Texas emerging as this season’s definitive drama major a symptom of a program stuck in neutral? The loss dropped Texas to 5-3 and officially nudged Herman onto the hot seat, as he’s 30-18 in his fourth season in Austin. And how you view this white-knuckle Texas season — just like… Source link