{"id":15035,"date":"2014-12-19T14:37:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T19:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15035"},"modified":"2014-12-28T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:02:43","slug":"techdirt-google-files-legal-challenge-to-attorney-general-jim-hoods-subpoenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15035","title":{"rendered":"TechDirt: Google Files Legal Challenge To Attorney General Jim Hood&#8217;s Subpoenas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TechDirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20141219\/09440829488\/google-files-legal-challenge-to-attorney-general-jim-hoods-subpoenas.shtml\">Google Files Legal Challenge To Attorney General Jim Hood&#8217;s Subpoenas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>from the well,-well dept<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This story sure escalated in a hurry. Following all the news of the MPAA&#8217;s tight relationship with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, Google has made a filing in a Mississippi federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and an injunction against Hood&#8217;s investigation. As the filing notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the last eighteen months, the Mississippi Attorney General has threatened to prosecute, sue, or investigate Google unless it agrees to block from its search engine, YouTube video-sharing site, and advertising systems, third-party content (i.e., websites, videos, or ads not created by Google) that the Attorney General deems objectionable. When Google did not agree to his demands, the Attorney General retaliated, issuing an enormously burdensome subpoena and asserting that he now has \u201creasonable grounds to believe\u201d that Google has engaged in \u201cdeceptive\u201d or \u201cunfair\u201d trade practice under the Mississippi Consumer Protection Act (MCPA), which allows for both civil and criminal sanctions. The Attorney General did so despite having publicly acknowledged in a letter to Congressional leaders that \u201cfederal law prevents State and local law enforcement agencies from prosecuting\u201d Internet platforms. The Attorney General took these actions following a sustained lobbying effort from the Motion Picture Association of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Google explains, there is no legal basis for this investigation: &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechDirt: Google Files Legal Challenge To Attorney General Jim Hood&#8217;s Subpoenas: from the well,-well dept This story sure escalated in a hurry. Following all the news of the MPAA&#8217;s tight relationship with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, Google has made &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15224,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions\/15224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}