Haugland v. Alphabet Inc. et al
| Filed | 2026-07-02 |
|---|---|
| Court | D. Haw. |
| Docket | 1:26-cv-00341 |
| Nature of suit | 410 Anti-Trust |
| Practice area | Antitrust |
| Plaintiff | Haugland |
| Defendant | Alphabet Inc. et al |
| Complaint | Download the complaint (PDF, free) |
What the complaint alleges
Theodore Haugland, proceeding pro se, sues Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. He alleges that Google uses its adjudicated monopoly power in search services to conditionally extract his website content for free—without consent or compensation—for use in AI Overviews, large language model training, and retrieval-augmented generation, thereby destroying his online legal information publishing business.
Claims asserted
- Unlawful Reciprocal Dealing (Sherman Act § 1, 15 U.S.C. § 1)
- Unlawful Monopoly Maintenance Through Reciprocal Dealing (Sherman Act § 2, 15 U.S.C. § 2)
- Unlawful Monopoly Maintenance Through Content Misappropriation (Sherman Act § 2, 15 U.S.C. § 2)
- Unlawful Monopoly Leveraging Into the Online Legal Information Publishing Market (Sherman Act § 2, 15 U.S.C. § 2)
- Unlawful Monopolization of General Search Services (Sherman Act § 2, 15 U.S.C. § 2)
- Unlawful Attempted Monopolization of Online Legal Information Publishing (Sherman Act § 2, 15 U.S.C. § 2)
- Unjust Enrichment (Hawaii Common Law)