A three-week case focused on whether Google’s monopoly on search engines should be broken up will begin Monday, as the company warns that the Justice Department is throwing “caution to the wind.”

District Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled last summer that Google had a monopoly on online search. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” he wrote.

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