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Google to Defend Generative AI Users From Copyright Claims
Oct 13 2023 // Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms if they are accused of intellectual property violations, joining Microsoft, Adobe...
NC Family Sues Google After Man Drove off Collapsed Bridge Following Map Directions
Sep 22 2023 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the technology giant for negligence, claiming it had been...
Google Launches Last-Ditch Effort to Overturn $2.6B EU Antitrust Fine
Sep 20 2023 // Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort at Europe’s top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro ($2.6 billion) EU antitrust fine imposed for market abuse related to its shopping service, saying that...
Google’s Search Dominance Challenged in Biggest Antitrust Trial in Decades
Sep 13 2023 // Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice charged Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter...
Google Tentatively Settles States’ Play Store Antitrust Suit
Sep 6 2023 // Alphabet Inc. tentatively settled claims that Google Play abuses its control over Android mobile applications, potentially resolving complaints over the company’s policies filed by consumers and attorneys general of...
Google Hit With Copyright Lawsuit by Danish Online Job-Search Rival
Sep 1 2023 // Alphabet’s Google was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday by Danish online job-search rival Jobindex, a year after the latter complained to EU antitrust regulators that the U.S. tech giant unfairly favored its own...
Federal Judge Set to Decertify Google Play Class Action
Aug 29 2023 // A U.S. judge plans to free Google from having to defend against a class action by 21 million consumers who claimed it violated federal antitrust law by overcharging them in its Google Play app store. Monday’s...
Google Fails to End $5B Consumer Privacy Lawsuit
Aug 8 2023 // A U.S. judge rejected Google’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of millions of people by secretly tracking their internet use. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday said she...
Judge Allows Key Antitrust Google Search Claims to Go to Trial
Aug 7 2023 // A U.S. judge hearing the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit accusing Google of unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the internet search market let stand key claims made by the federal government. Google, a unit...
Google Owes $338.7 Million in Chromecast Patent Case, Jury Says
Jul 24 2023 // Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday. The jury found that...
Analytics Company Says Law Firms Using Google Searches to Drive Litigation
Jul 6 2023 // National law firms are investing $10 million to $12 million annually each to direct Google searches to websites that they control in an effort to find new clients to file lawsuits against insurance companies, according to...
Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Accusing Google of Stealing Millions of Song Lyrics
Jun 26 2023 // The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics. The justices left in place a ruling that tossed out the...
Gannett Sues Google, Alleges Online Ad Monopoly
Jun 20 2023 // Gannett Co Inc, the largest U.S. newspaper chain, on Tuesday sued Google, accusing the social media company of violating federal antitrust law by trying to monopolize the market for online advertising. The publisher of USA...
EU Regulators Could Demand That Google Sell Part of Ad-Tech Business: Source
Jun 13 2023 // European Union antitrust regulators may order Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell a part of its advertising-technology business, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. The EU’s top...
Google Antitrust Suit Over Ad Tech Sent Back to State Court
Jun 6 2023 // A judicial panel on Monday transferred antitrust litigation against Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed by state attorneys general back to a federal court in Texas, citing a law passed by Congress in December. The decision...
Jury Says Google Owes Sonos $32.5M in Smart-Speaker Patent Case
May 30 2023 // Alphabet Inc’s Google must pay $32.5 million in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos Inc’s patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday. The case is...
The Supreme Court Handed Google and Twitter a New Line of Defense
May 19 2023 // The US Supreme Court handed social media companies a new line of defense as they face an increasing number of lawsuits alleging their algorithms have harmed users — whether by addicting children or selling suicide...
London Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Google Over Medical Records
May 19 2023 // Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free London NHS Trust transferred patient data to...
Supreme Court Leaves Intact Social Media Liability Shield in Win for Google, Twitter
May 18 2023 // The US Supreme Court left in place a broad liability shield for social media companies for content posted by users, insulating Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google LLC from claims that they provided assistance to Islamic...
Judge Denies Google’s Motion to Dismiss Advertising Antitrust Case
Apr 28 2023 // A U.S. federal judge on Friday denied Google’s motion to dismiss a Department of Justice antitrust case focused on advertising technology. The government, which filed the ad tech lawsuit in January, has argued that...
