The Justice Department and multiple states allege that Google holds a monopoly over online advertising technology, shutting out competitors and charging high fees. Google counters that the government is focusing too narrowly on specific types of ads.

Alphabet’s Google scored a big win Wednesday after the European Union’s second-highest court canceled a fine of 1.49 billion euros ($1.66 billion) that antitrust officials had imposed on the search giant over how it might have restricted how some websites displayed ads sold by its rivals.

Google will be in court on Monday to face allegations of an ad tech monopoly. Experts say that a DOJ win could create a better browsing future.

Google has won a court challenge against a 1.49 billion euro European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business

Antitrust officials had imposed the fine over how the search giant might have restricted the way that some websites displayed ads sold by its rivals.

Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday asked a London tribunal to throw out a mass lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of abusing its dominance in the online search market. The lawsuit – valued at up to 7 billion pounds ($9.

Google has avoided a European Union $1.7 billion antitrust penalty over its AdSense advertising platform thanks to a Wednesday ruling from the EU General Court. The court annulled the European Commission fine.