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With the way Google's corporate structure is set up I do not think the general shareholding public have the power to sue Google in such a fashion.

Separately, I think that as more of the story comes out we will see that this move is in Google's best interest; as difficult a decision that leaving China is. I've mentioned in other places that there is probably a lot more going on here. Today Techcrunch reports, http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/14/google-china-holiday-le..., that Google is sending their China staff home on early holiday. One can imagine a scenario where someone planted hard/soft hacks or network snoops directly at Google China HQ.