[tripzilch]

The ISP Sonic fought against having to hand over the data and lost.

Both Sonic and Google fought over the right to inform Mr. Appelbaum of the request for his data and won (afaik).

The article says it is not known whether Google fought against having to hand over the data, like the ISP Sonic did.

Which makes me assume the writers asked Google, they didn't answer, neither did they issue a press report one way or the other. Which leads me to believe that, no, Google did not fight the actual request and unlike the small ISP Sonic did just comply in order to make their lives easier.

Of course it's just speculation but why else would we know about the other case Google did fight in this matter?

Additionally, why would Google go through that trouble, they have no interest either way, and are not in the business of protecting their users from surveillance state governments. Apparently.

[RobertKohr]

Or they simply knew they were going to lose from the fact that they have already gone through this with similar cases.

The law is the law, and they must comply.