Google asks federal court to dismiss ad tech lawsuit

Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -2.22% GOOG, -2.56% filed a motion in federal court in New York Friday asking the court to dismiss Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s antitrust lawsuit over Google’s ad tech products. “This lawsuit has now been rewritten three times. With each version, AG Paxton follows the same pattern: make inaccurate and inflammatory allegations, publicize them widely, and repeat. This playbook may generate attention, but it doesn’t make for a credible antitrust lawsuit,” Google said in a blog post.