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Penske Media Corporation v Google LLC

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Case Information
Case name Penske Media Corporation et al. v. Google LLC[1]
Court U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia[1]
Docket 1:25-cv-03192-APM[1]
Filed September 12, 2025[1]
Judge(s) Amit P. Mehta[1]
Plaintiffs Penske Media Corporation and affiliated publishers including Rolling Stone, Variety and Billboard[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; a companion dismissal order states the dismissal is without prejudice and final and appealable. No appeal was verified.[1]

Penske Media Corporation et al. 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 Penske had not plausibly alleged that AI Overviews was a separate tied product or defined a viable broad online-publishing market. The companion order dismisses the case without prejudice.[2]

References

  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 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.
  2. ↑ U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Penske docket ECF 33, September 30, 2026; order body reviewed in October 1 news run.
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