The tech giant pulled it off by cutting a check for $2.3 million to cover potential damages.

Experts in the case estimated the feds may have overpaid by around $750,000, reportsBloomberg.

Most antitrust cases are heard by a judge rather than a jury.

Google sidesteps jury trial in DoJ antitrust case with $2.3 million check

Google wasn’t having it, though.

She’ll now oversee a bench trial scheduled for September.

Of course, avoiding a jury is just a small skirmish in Google’s much largerantitrust war.

The company insists it “welcomes a full resolution by this Court of all remaining claims.”