India-born US Judge Amit Mehta assigned Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google

US District Judge Amit Mehta will preside over the Justice Department’s essential lawsuit towards web search large Google.

Mehta was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on December 22, 2014 by former US president Barack Obama.

Born in Patan, Gujarat, Mehta obtained his BA in Political Science and Economics from Georgetown University in 1993 and his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1997. After regulation faculty, Mehta labored in a regulation agency in San Francisco earlier than clerking for Susan Graber of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Mehta labored at a Washington, DC-based regulation agency. In 2002, Mehta joined the District of Columbia Public Defender Service as a workers legal professional.

Mehta served on the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and is the previous co-chair of the District of Columbia Bar’s Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section Steering Committee. He can also be a former Director of Facilitating Leadership in Youth, a non-profit group devoted to after-school actions and mentoring for at-risk youth, in response to his profile on the web site of US District Court, District of Columbia.

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice – together with 11 state Attorneys General – filed a civil antitrust lawsuit within the US District Court for the District of Columbia to cease Google from unlawfully sustaining monopolies via anticompetitive and exclusionary practices within the search and search promoting markets and to treatment the aggressive harms. The collaborating state Attorneys General workplaces symbolize Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas.

“As one of the wealthiest companies on the planet with a market value of $1 trillion, Google is the monopoly gatekeeper to the internet for billions of users and countless advertisers worldwide. For years, Google has accounted for almost 90 percent of all search queries in the United States and has used anti-competitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in search and search advertising,” the Justice Department stated.

A report in The Washington Post stated, “absent a settlement, the outcome could rest in the hands of Amit Mehta, a federal judge in a Washington, D.C., district court. Appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama, he was randomly selected Wednesday to hear the Google case.”