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Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court

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“You of all people should have known that there was no excuse for not preserving chats,” Judge Donato tells Google’s chief legal officer.

“When you go out to dinner, it doesn’t matter what’s printed on the menu, it matters what the kitchen puts on the plate. What is the discovery that was or wasn’t put on the plate?”

Judge Donato is not happy. Google tried to point out the passage Epic didn’t, but the judge cut Google short.

Donato says Google should have made employees live up to the company’s obligations and “ensure employees that were having communications substantive to a case not be given undue discretion not to preserve them.”

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