Google chief legal officer Kent Walker. | Photo By Alex Zea/Europa Press via Getty Images
Judge James Donato is overseeing Epic v. Google, a case that could determine the future of the Android app store — but testimony in this case may have more repercussions for Google too.
On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company’s conduct “a frontal assault on the fair administration of justice.” We were there in the courtroom for his explanation.
“I am going to get to the bottom of who is responsible,” he said, saying he would pursue these issues “on my own, outside of this trial.”
Testimony in the Epic v. Google trial — and in a parallel DOJ antitrust suit against Google in Washington, DC — revealed that Google automatically deleted chat messages…