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Google Motion Denied In Lawsuit Against Mississippi Attorney General

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-deep-breath dept.

An anonymous reader points out that a judge has called a time-out on a case between Google and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. "A federal judge has denied Google's motion to block enforcement of a subpoena issued by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood that seeks information from Google about parts of its operations, including information about advertising for imported prescription drugs. Federal court records also show U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate put Google's response to the subpoena on hold until after the new year. Wingate scheduled a Feb. 13 hearing for further discussions on Google's motion. He asked attorneys for both sides to file new briefs in January."

23 comments

  1. Fighting against the largest gang in america. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All judges, lawyers, and DAs work and help each other. Google is fighting against the largest gang in the country and there's no way they can win. In a lawful country this DA would be behind bars, but in America he gets protected by other members of his gang. Considering the level of corruption in this case, is there a way another country can adjudicate the case ?

    1. Re: Fighting against the largest gang in america. by JeffYoung · · Score: 1

      Probably don't want to change venues to Europe. Aren't the face antitrust laws here? #jussayin

    2. Re: Fighting against the largest gang in america. by davester666 · · Score: 1

      for all the pro-consumer/anti-business stuff that everybody thinks Europe has, for some reason debeer's bailed from the US and seems to operate quite openly and successfully in Europe. #jussayin

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    3. Re:Fighting against the largest gang in america. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you telling me that you honestly believe we can't get a Congress of 535 people to work together, but that thousands of people from multiple branches of government work together in lockstep? I think you've taken your tinfoil hat off too soon.

    4. Re: Fighting against the largest gang in america. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lol - that EU antitrust is a fucking joke.

      Google doesn't control the Search industry.
      Google doesn't control the online advertising industry.

      What Google does is create good search algorithms. So good in fact, that the World's masses CHOOSE to use Google instead of the other fucktards.

      Given a choice between Google and any other Search engine in the world, people will choose Google day in and day out.

      Why? Because they have the best algorithms, they return the best results. In countries where they have state run search engines, people will use tor and other anonomyzing agents so that they can use Google's search engines.

      Wake up EU, you're fucking retarded, it's the People's choice that makes Google rank as the #1 search company, and Google doesn't control that one bit, except by out-performing every other search engine combined.

    5. Re:Fighting against the largest gang in america. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They all take orders from the same Rico Gangs (MPAA/RIAA), so yes, they do act in lock step.

      Just sayin'

    6. Re: Fighting against the largest gang in America. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      State attorneys-general sometimes go too far, but at least they have to be elected, and can be removed by the electorate. Corporations, on the other hand, answer to no-one (not even their shareholders in any meaningful sense, as demonstrated by Google's stock split this year.) As Andrew Orlowski points out in El Reg, state AGs' offices have been almost the only institutions bringing some level of responsibility to banking. If you are not a banker (and maybe even if you are), would you be happy to see J.P.Morgan Chase muzzling the NY AG?

      Most of the support for Google in this case seems to be based on opposition to the MPAA, but Orlowski makes the case that this is a diversionary red herring, and Hood is far from the shill he is made out to be. Anyway, and regardless of your opinion of the MPAA, it is not an important enough issue to dismantle the institutions of democracy over.

    7. Re:Fighting against the largest gang in america. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Lockstep? That's quite the unnecessary hyperbole. It doesn't take nearly that much coordination for independent actors to attempt to protect their own tribe; see the 'blue shield.'

  2. Headline by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read "Google Motion" and my first thought was "Oh great, yet another Google product I've never used...."

    1. Re:Headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      They already killed it. They kill products before anybody even thinks them up.

    2. Re:Headline by Greyfox · · Score: 1

      Same here! Made the headline very difficult to parse. I was all like "Ooh! Google Motion! Must be a Kinect competitor! Just fire up Buckethead's Aquabot, your Google Motion and start dancing!

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      I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

    3. Re:Headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I read "Google Motion" and my first thought was "Oh great, yet another Google product I've never used...."

      I read "new briefs in January" and thought, guess it's not just me that gets underpants for Christmas....

    4. Re:Headline by SternisheFan · · Score: 2

      "Come on, come on, and do the Google motion with me..."

    5. Re:Headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Same here! Made the headline very difficult to parse.

      There was a time when semiliterate idiots like "samzenpus" would not have been able to
      write for publication in any decent magazine or newspaper, because they could not have
      gotten or kept a job due to their incompetence.

      Now, any idiot can pretend to be a writer. So the crap that pretends to be journalism
      on Slashdot in what you get.

    6. Re:Headline by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 1

      "Come on, come on, and do the Google motion with me..."

      You have too new of a UID to know that song!

    7. Re:Headline by Notabadguy · · Score: 1

      Young'uns can have taste too!

      It's a sign of solid parenting. Would you rather they had come in singing Nicki Minaj's [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs]Anaconda[/url]?

      Egads, how does one embed a link on Slashdot?

    8. Re:Headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Young'uns can have taste too!

      [...]

      Egads, how does one embed a link on Slashdot?

      Apparently young'uns don't know HTML. Do you even code, bro?

  3. WTH - hundreds of comments appear to...NO CARRIER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is it my browser? Nope, checked multiple on multiple systems..

    Hundreds of posts gone, vanished, vaporized..

    I'm telling you it's the Rico Gang's doing...

  4. Re: WTH - hundreds of comments appear to...NO CARR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hundreds of posts gone, vanished, vaporized..

    I'm telling you it's the Rico Gang's doing...

    No. Obviously, it's Carmen Sandiego. She stole that.

    She's also responsible for stealing our country's remaining virtue around the time the USA PATRIOT Act was passed.

    Merry Christmas.

  5. MPAA was behind it! by wasteoid · · Score: 1

    Turns out the Mississippi AG was just the "attack dog" for the MPAA: http://www.dailytech.com/Missi...

  6. Time out because Google defends itself? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah sure. Let's call a "timeout" when someone puts objections to a clearly sleazily concocted subpoena actually drawn up by a sponsor with financial interests. And call that "timeout" to apply to the defense against such a subpoena but not to the subpoena itself.

    It's like calling a "timeout" for an alley fight which forces the attacked person to keep his fists down while the attacker is permitted to continue punching him in the face.

    America's "justice" system is such a perversion...

  7. Google Motion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For an alternate view see The Register's article: Blind justice: Google lawsuit silences elected state prosecutor
      at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/1223/googles_driveby_shooting_of_jim_hood_takes_out_key_critic/