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Technology,
Government,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Apr. 1, 2022

DOJ’s call for sanctions in antitrust case ‘baseless,’ Google says

The U.S. Department of Justice accused the company of instructing employees to add in-house counsel to routine business communications.

Attorneys for the parent company of Google, accused by federal prosecutors of trying to hide documents to avoid turning them over in discovery in an antitrust lawsuit, have retorted that the government’s sanctions allegations are “baseless.”

U.S. Department of Justice attorney Kenneth M. Dintzer accused the company of instructing employees to add in-house counsel to routine business communications, adding “pretextual requests for legal ad...

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