Chegg Inc v Google LLC

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Case Information
Case name	Chegg, Inc. v. Google LLC^[1]
Court	U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia^[1]
Docket	1:25-cv-00543-APM^[1]
Filed	February 24, 2025^[1]
Judge(s)	Amit P. Mehta^[1]
Plaintiffs	Chegg, Inc.^[1]
Defendants	Google LLC and Alphabet Inc.^[1]
Case type	Civil antitrust action involving Google Search AI Overviews^[1]
Claims / issues	Sherman Act theories concerning alleged coercion of publishers to provide content, search monopoly maintenance, and alleged expansion into online-publishing markets; California unjust enrichment.^[1]
Status	The September 30, 2026 memorandum opinion grants Google’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint. No later appeal was verified.^[1]

Chegg, Inc. v. Google LLC challenged Google's use of publisher material in AI Overviews and its effect on search referrals. The allegations were the plaintiffs' claims; the court resolved pleading sufficiency rather than finding the alleged conduct occurred.^[1]

September 30, 2026 dismissal

Judge Mehta granted Google's motion to dismiss. The court rejected the asserted arrangement exchanging publication content for search referrals and found insufficiently pleaded antitrust theories, including the proposed online-publishing market. It declined supplemental jurisdiction over the California unjust-enrichment claim after dismissing the federal counts.^[1]

The court found Chegg had not plausibly defined an online educational publishing market or shown a dangerous probability of Google monopolizing that market. It also found Chegg lacked antitrust standing for its general-search theory.^[1]

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↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, memorandum opinion in Chegg, Inc. v. Google LLC and Penske Media Corporation v. Google LLC, September 30, 2026, Chegg ECF 27 / Penske ECF 32; complete 41-page opinion reviewed.

[opinion-1] 1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, memorandum opinion in Chegg, Inc. v. Google LLC and Penske Media Corporation v. Google LLC, September 30, 2026, Chegg ECF 27 / Penske ECF 32; complete 41-page opinion reviewed.

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