The DOJ asks a judge in its Google antitrust case to sanction the company for allegedly training its staff to avoid legal discovery by copying counsel on emails
The Justice Department has asked the judge overseeing its antitrust case against Google to sanction the company …
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Related Coverage
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- Memorandum In Support Of Plaintiffs' Motion To Sanction Google And Compel Disclosure Of Documents Unjustifiably Claimed By Google As Attorney-Client Privileged United States District Court For The District Of Columbia
- US Justice Department says Google misuses attorney-client privilege to hide documents Engadget · Mariella Moon
- Google Improperly Invoked Legal Privilege to Withhold Emails, Government Claims Wall Street Journal · John D. McKinnon
- Google allegedly hid documents from search monopoly lawsuit, DOJ claims ZDNet · Campbell Kwan
- U.S. asks judge to sanction Google in pretrial document fight Reuters · Diane Bartz
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@lutherlowe
Luther Lowe
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Recall that depositions in 2010 showed Eric Schmidt's practice was to delete all his emails “as quickly as possible” (See: https://gawker.com/5505606) Destruction of incriminating antitrust evidence has been part of Google's DNA from the beginning. https://twitter.com/...
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@jason_kint
Jason Kint
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Chk this out. So Facebook has (so far) avoided sensitive discovery in DC Courts while facing sanctions for abusing it in California. But now it's Google's turn with Justice Dept filing for sanctions alleging how Google teaches its employees to avoid discovery. So obvious. /1 http…
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@rustybrick
Barry Schwartz
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First hiding Android statues and now hiding emails! https://twitter.com/...
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@orientaljanedoe
Jane Chung
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A fun little thing we used to do on our team at Facebook was label any email thread with remotely 'sensitive'* info as A/C Priv and CC an attorney for exactly this reason *related to privacy, security, electeds, competitors, children, lobbying, dissenting activists, etc. https://…
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@benjaminjackson
Ben Jackson
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Wonder how many other companies are out there training new hires to CC legal on any emails they'd rather not see end up in a court filing https://twitter.com/...
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@orientaljanedoe
Jane Chung
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to be clear: an extremely small number of these communications involved an attorney providing legal advice we just wanted to cover our bases if/when we were investigated :)