The National Post reports in its Saturday, Aug. 5, edition that Google will face a scaled-down antitrust suit over its search business after a U.S. federal judge threw out some allegations by state attorneys general. An bylined item in the Post reports that Google had asked for the judge to make a ruling before the trial, which is scheduled for September. Some of the government's claims, including those put together by a consortium of state attorneys general that argued the way Google designed its search engine page was unfairly harming competitors like Yelp, were dismissed. However, the allegations that Google's overall business practices constitute a monopoly that violates the 1890 Sherman Act still deserve a trial, Judge Amit Mehta said. Judge Mehta left in place allegations by the Justice Department that Google's contracts with Apple, Mozilla and smart phone makers to preload its search engine harmed competition. The case, set for trial in Sept. 12, will now focus on the agreements Google made with companies to set its search engine as the default, which the plaintiffs allege kept rivals such as Microsoft's Bing and Duckduckgo from gaining the scale needed to compete with Google.