DOJ: Irrefutable Evidence Google is Hiding Documents in Antitrust Case
There’s irrefutable evidence Google has been hiding documents in DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against the company, the government argued Thursday before the U.S. District Court in Washington in docket 1:20-cv-03010 (see 2203240040). DOJ responded to a filing from Google, which denied…
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the company engaged in a “systematic, bad-faith scheme to falsify and hide documents.” Within the past week, after DOJ asked the court to act, Google “produced more than 8,000 documents wrongly withheld under claims of privilege,” the department said. DOJ noted Google was “put on notice about its spurious privilege designations in at least two other legal proceedings,” which hasn’t deterred the misconduct.