Swordsmyth
06-08-2019, 07:45 PM
Google must face a class-action lawsuit brought by Republican attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon on behalf of the tech giant’s conservative employees, according to a California court. Current and former Google employees say in a lawsuit that the company discriminates against non-progressives (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/01/08/james-damore-files-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-alleging-political-racial-gender-based-discrimination/) on the basis of their viewpoint, and against whites, Asians, and males on the basis of sex and race.
Google attempted to have the case dismissed. But a judge in California, where political discrimination is illegal, ruled against the company.
The case will now move to a legal process known as discovery — meaning that Google must provide Dhillon and other attorneys working on the case access to its internal documents.
This is potentially a huge problem for the tech giant, as previous leaks of internal documents and video (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/) have repeatedly exposed the company’s extreme political bias.
The case was sparked by the firing of James Damore in 2017 after he wrote an internal memo — subsequently leaked to the press by leftists within the company — calling for more political diversity at the company.
After Damore initiated legal proceedings, other former Google employees joined the class-action lawsuit (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/18/google-lawsuit-hispanic-engineer-claims-company-blacklisted-him-for-political-views/). Damore has since exited the case and entered arbitration, but the case will still proceed on behalf of the other plaintiffs.
More at: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/07/google-cant-dodge-conservative-employees-discrimination-lawsuit-court-says/
Google attempted to have the case dismissed. But a judge in California, where political discrimination is illegal, ruled against the company.
The case will now move to a legal process known as discovery — meaning that Google must provide Dhillon and other attorneys working on the case access to its internal documents.
This is potentially a huge problem for the tech giant, as previous leaks of internal documents and video (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/) have repeatedly exposed the company’s extreme political bias.
The case was sparked by the firing of James Damore in 2017 after he wrote an internal memo — subsequently leaked to the press by leftists within the company — calling for more political diversity at the company.
After Damore initiated legal proceedings, other former Google employees joined the class-action lawsuit (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/18/google-lawsuit-hispanic-engineer-claims-company-blacklisted-him-for-political-views/). Damore has since exited the case and entered arbitration, but the case will still proceed on behalf of the other plaintiffs.
More at: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/07/google-cant-dodge-conservative-employees-discrimination-lawsuit-court-says/