Judge Sets March 2025 Jury Trial in RFK Jr.'s Freedom of Speech Suit vs. Google
After hearing oral argument, U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson took under submission Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motion for a temporary restraining order against Google, said a text-only minute entry in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco Monday.…
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Kennedy, a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, sued Google in a freedom of speech lawsuit for removing videos of Kennedy’s comments on COVID-19 and other vaccines (see 2308030049). Thompson set jury selection and trial for March 17, 2025, with a final pretrial conference set for Feb. 13, 2025. An in-person hearing on Kennedy’s motion for a preliminary injunction against YouTube to prevent the streaming platform from enforcing its medical misinformation policies, and Google’s motion to dismiss, is set for Nov. 7 at 2 p.m., said a Monday tentative case management and scheduling order (docket 3:23-cv-03880).