(Originally published by Promarket on September 23, 2025.)

Judge Amit Mehta’s decision is careful, detailed, and thoughtful. With one exception regarding the scope of the prohibition on Google’s illegal conduct, Judge Mehta seems to have done a good job tailoring the remedy “to fit the wrong creating the occasion for the remedy.” In this article, we reiterate the purposes of antitrust remedies, review inconsistencies in Judge Mehta’s remedy terminating the unlawful agreements Google made with partners to establish its search engine as the default option, discuss the data-sharing remedies ordered by Judge Mehta, and explain why we think his decision not to order a breakup was correct.

Continue reading the opinion here.