Antitrust Lawsuits, Attitudes about Lawsuits & Damages, Consulting, Corporate Attitudes, Data Privacy

DOJ v. Google: Survey Results

DOJ v. Google: Survey Results Background The Department of Justice (DOJ) is pursuing an antitrust lawsuit against Google for “unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms.” Former Attorney General Barr stated that Google’s monopoly harms “users, advertisers, and small businesses in […]

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Attitudes about Lawsuits & Damages, Consulting, Corporate Personhood & Responsibility

“Collective Knowledge” of a Corporation

The Concept of Collective Knowledge The issue of whether a corporation’s conduct is “knowing” is often an important step in determining whether a corporation can be found guilty of criminal conduct. But how does a corporation “know” something? While this concept is sometimes difficult to discern for individuals, it is extremely complicated when the defendant […]

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Attitudes about Lawsuits & Damages, Consulting, Corporate Personhood & Responsibility

In Their Own Words: Jurors’ Opinions of “Collective Knowledge” of a Corporation

After asking jurors about their understanding of, and agreement with, the Collective Knowledge jury instruction, we asked them to explain what the instruction meant to them in their own words.  The instruction read as follows: The knowledge obtained by corporate employees acting within the scope of their employment is imputed to the corporation. Accordingly, if […]

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