A federal judge rejected Google’s claims that one of the architects behind a Department of Justice case, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, should submit to the company’s questioning at a deposition.
The federal judge overseeing the second of the Justice Department’s pair of antitrust lawsuits on Friday rejected Google’s claims that one of the architects behind the case, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, is improperly biased and should submit to the company’s questioning at a deposition.
Kanter has built a reputation as an adversary of Big Tech, previously representing clients like Google critic Yelp as a partner at the Kanter Law Group. After President Bidento lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division in 2021, Kanter was recused from the Google case for his first year at the department, and was authorized to work on it after that.
to much fanfare on Tuesday, marking the first time the Justice Department took major tech company to court for antitrust issues in more than two decades.At the Friday hearing, Brinkema admonished an attorney for the tech company to focus on what she described as “huge discovery problems” in the case. The court found that Google failed to provide millions of documents subject to discovery before a judge’s deadline this summer.of the allegations involving Kanter.
Mahr noted that the Justice Department has said career staff also approved the Google ad-tech lawsuit, but he added, “Mr. Kanter shouldn’t be allowed to hide behind the career staff, when he directed them to do that.”
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