Enlarge / Ian Madrigal, dressed as the Monopoly Man, outside federal court on the first day of the Justice Department’s antitrust trial against Google. (credit: Win McNamee / Staff | Getty Images North America)
This morning, Bloomberg published more than a dozen public exhibits that Google argued the public shouldn’t have access to from the Department of Justice’s 10-week antitrust trial examining Google’s search business. The DOJ had hastily removed those exhibits from its website earlier this week after Google complained to the court that the DOJ was sharing trial exhibits online.
“Just so we understand what’s at stake here, every document [the DOJ’s lawyers] push into evidence they post on their website, and it gets picked up far and wide,” Google lawyer John Schmidtlein said in an objection raised on Tuesday. The dramatic moment followed sealed testimony from Google’s vice president for finance, Michael Roszak, regarding a document that Google claimed was “embarrassing” and Roszak claimed was “full of hyperbole and exaggeration,” Bloomberg reported.
“This isn’t a business record, and it’s totally irrelevant to these proceedings,” Schmidtlein argued.
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