Deseret News Opinion: Here’s why the Utah-led antitrust lawsuit against Google Play games the system Many antitrust scholars believe that the laws were intended to protect consumers against high prices and other market abuses, not from competition Share this story Mark Lennihan, Associated Press Utah’s Attorney General Sean Reyes, who once hoped for a seat on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, is co-leading a coalition of 36 other states pursuing a lawsuit against tech giant Google (a unit of Alphabet). Characterized as bipartisan, the state attorneys general accuse Google Play of violating U.S. antitrust laws by adopting exclusionary practices supposedly hamstringing rival app stores’ access to software developers and to prospective app customer-users.