September 2, 2025: He Refused to Order Google to Sell Chrome.

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After the August 2024 liability finding, Mehta held a remedies phase. On September 2, 2025, he issued a 230-page memorandum opinion, docketed as Document 1436 in 20-cv-03010 (APM). The opinion rejects structural remedies that would have required Google to divest Chrome or Android. It bars exclusive default-search distribution agreements and requires limited sharing of certain search-index and user-interaction data with qualified competitors. Just the News and the Washington Examiner reported those terms from the ruling.

A remedies opinion is not a criminal sentence. Both sides later appealed portions, per contemporaneous reporting. Appeal is status. It does not erase the September 2 order.

Sources

Mehta, J. Remedies memorandum opinion, United States v. Google LLC, 20-cv-03010 (APM), ECF 1436 (Sept. 2, 2025). Courthouse News PDF. www.courthousenews.com

Severi, Misty. “Federal judge directs Google to share search results in major antitrust decision but not sell Chrome.” Just the News, Sept. 2, 2025 (reporting). justthenews.com

Washington Examiner. “Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome but must share search results.” (reporting). www.washingtonexaminer.com

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

The Justice Department wanted Chrome gone. He said no. Humility, he called it. The monopoly finding stayed. The breakup did not.