Google pivoted from a week of furious lobbying with US Congressional leaders to take on the state of Texas and its allies, in anti-trust suit which it now wants dismissed.

The company which also runs offices in Kenya, filed a motion to dismiss a case filed by a coalition of US states led by Texas that accuses it of colluding with fellow tech major, Facebook, to rig advertisements auctions.

The search and advertising giant which had just failed in its bid to convince Washington not to move forward with anti-trust action against it, says the Texan-led effort is merely a collection of grievances which contains allegations of conduct long since abandoned.

Google's head of economic policy, Adam Cohen, pitched in with a ligitation comms move writing in a blog post that Texas was:

"..making inaccurate and inflammatory allegations that misrepresent Google’s business, products, and motives. Cohen refuted a handful of the claims made  including those surrounding alleged collusion with Facebook.