Reply #32: U.S. judge in Google case sides with gov't in part

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. judge in Google case sides with gov't in part
Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:42 PM ET

SAN JOSE, March 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge said on Tuesday he intended to partly support the government's scaled back request for data on Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) customers search habits, in a hearing on whether the company must comply to a subpoena demanding the information.

"It is my intent to grant some relief to the government," said Judge James Ware of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Ware was referring to the government's move on Tuesday to scale back the amount of data on Google's searches to just thousands from the millions or potentially billions of search requests the government had initially sought.

The judge said he expected to make a decision "very quickly."
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