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Google Emails, Memos Hidden From Web as DOJ Caves at Trial
Trial is already limited in visibility to those who personally attend court
Google is facing off against the Justice Department in an antitrust trial.
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The US Department of Justice has removed public access to emails, charts and internal presentations from Alphabet Inc.’s Google that had come out as evidence in its landmark antitrust lawsuit against the tech titan.
Google had challenged the government’s posting of the documents online, and the court was sympathetic to its concerns. The result: a trial much more difficult for the public to follow than the similarly monumental and widely watched antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. in the 1990s.