Maybe Next Time Google Should Google “Legal Hold”
Six Simple Steps to Avoid Sanctions for Failure to Preserve Electronic Evidence I’m not a lawyer, and far be it for me to give legal advice, but I’ve lived and worked around lawyers for all of my professional legal career, so I’m at least qualified to comment on the importance of executing sound legal hold and preservation processes. Google Has Monopolized the Search Market Recently, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision in United States of America et al., vs. Google LLC, Case No. 1:20-cv-03010-APM (08/05/24). This case was brought against Google by the federal and state governments alleging that Google practices related to their dominance of the search market violated the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act, which are U.S. laws designed to protect against antitrust, monopolistic, and unfair and anti-competitive business practices. Commenced in 2020 and proceeding through discovery and eventually a trial in 2023, the case largely flew under the ra...