Did Google Yield Too Easily to a Baseless Court Order?

October 2, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

Once again, a judge in the Northern District of California has issued an overbroad temporary restraining order at the behest of a bank in a case over which federal jurisdiction was highly questionable.

Last year, Judge Jeffrey White issued a temporary restraining order at the behest of Bank Julius Baer, attempting to take down the Wikileaks web site based on a suit claiming that it had wrongfully published confidential documents supplied by an anonymous third party.

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Tagged with: confidential, confidential information, Internet, Paul Levy, Public Citizen, Wikileaks

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