California filed papers with a federal court in Washington, seeking to join the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, the Wall Street Journal reported. If approved, California would be the first state led by a Democratic attorney general to join the litigation. When the Justice Department filed the lawsuit in October, it was joined by 11 Republican states. California...
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