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Google had duty to preserve chats before Sept. 2019, US states say in adtech case

( February 25, 2025, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A Texas-led coalition of 17 US states and territories asked a US federal judge to consider whether Google anticipated their antitrust litigation before September 2019. “Google’s duty to preserve chats in this matter could be triggered by its anticipation of litigation from any one of the 17 plaintiffs — not just Texas. The evidence shows that Google anticipated litigation from several plaintiffs’ state attorneys general before September 2019, including anticipating adtech litigation from the plaintiff state of Missouri as early as 2018. That alone triggered Google’s duty to preserve chats and disproves Google’s representation that nothing on its privilege log prior to September 2019 was created in anticipation of this litigation,” they said.See attached file. ...

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