The Justice Department has removed some of the online exhibits from the US v. Google trial because of a dispute over whether documents should be made available online.
The Verge reports that the decision will come back in the morning.
Earlier, the Big Tech On Trial newsletter reported on the exchange between the Justice Department and Google over whether an exhibit could be submitted as evidence.
Google’s attorneys had raised the issue of the Justice posting documents online, a fact Mehta had not been aware of.
Bloomberg reports that court documents are frequently posted online during trials, and in some cases that’s led to unintended disclosures.
The FTC’s recent court battle with Microsoft led to details leaking from incomplete redactions as well as a trove of apparently mistakenly uploaded documents that revealed internal plans for a new Xbox console earlier this week.
Google declined to comment on the record about the dispute, and the Justice Dept. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The page formerly hosting exhibits is currently offline,
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