Is Suing Google Like Suing God?

Is Suing Google Like Suing God?

7 March 2012 - LawFuel.co.nz - Law News Daily - Can you do it? Can you really sue Google, the master of the internet universe and all it contains? Or are lawyers attempting the impossible, like trying to sue God. There's a case in Auckland now that the plaintiff dearly wants to win. And there's just been one in the UK, which the plaintiff just lost.

Suing Google, such as the former psychiatrist in Auckland claiming damages for a report online, is something that is difficult, as a British court decision has indicated.

Google won a significant libel battle after a former Conservative councillor, who complained about allegedly defamatory comment on Google's blogger.com service, lost her case.

A broadly similar case is presently before the Auckland High Court where the plaintiff is attempting to have a highly offensive post on a consumer site, RipoffReport.com, posted in 2008, removed. The post included the man's name, address, profession and contact information but did not reveal anything more about the author.

His lawyer, Matthew McClelland says his client denies the offensive claims made in the post. His claim is against Google NZ rather than Google Inc in the US, the parent company of the internet search giant, unlike the British claim.

Google Inc claimed in the British case, rather like Kim Dotcom in respect of the allegations against him by the US Government over his alleged various breaches of copyright law, that they provided a wall upon which some people scrawled graffiti.

Justict Eady agreed. Further, the judge ordererd the plaintiff, Payam Tamiz, to pay legal costs to Google as well.
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