Ray Seilie’s commentary is featured in the recent Law.com article entitled, “Judge’s Technical Committee Begins Google Remedies Oversight With Full Staff,” which examines how a federal judge has appointed a committee of professionals to monitor Google as it navigates a six-year remedy mandate to reinstate competition across general search and general search text advertising.
In May of 2026, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta of the District of Columbia selected five individuals regarded as experts in technology to serve on a Technical Committee that will oversee Google’s antitrust remedies. As Ray describes, it is “very unusual” that, through a final liability judgement, a technical committee was established, rather than a consent decree.
“If this is the structure that ends up working well and survives legal scrutiny … solutions like this are going to seem appealing in other cases,” Ray tells Law.com, emphasizing how this could potentially be replicated in the high-profile New York v. Live Nation antitrust case.
At the conclusion of the article, Ray discusses whether he thinks Google’s ruling will be overturned, stating, “I think it is unlikely an appeals court will completely overturn the ruling Google violated antitrust laws given how fact dependent that ruling was.”
Read the full article in Law.com (subscription required) here.
