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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 290 days ago
"But second, because Judge Amit Mehta decided that the Google case should be shrouded in mystery, suppressing the publication of key exhibits and banning phones, cameras and laptops from the courtroom, with the effect that virtually no one even noticed that the most important antitrust case in tech history, a genuine trial of the century, was underway:

https://www.promarket.org/2023/10/27/google-monopolizes-judi...

But Judge Mehta turned his courtroom into a Star Chamber, a black hole whence no embarrassing information about Google's wicked deeds could emerge."

I did submit the Order to HN for discusssion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109044

People read the Opinion, but probably no one read the Order that accompanied it

It seems the limited redactions in the Opinion somehow makes up for the trial's lack of transparency

Nor was Google ever sanctioned for its past discovery violations

The remedies hearing transcripts should be released to the public