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Judge Resets Oral Argument on Google’s Motion to Dismiss RNC’s Gmail Complaint

U.S. District Judge Daniel Calabretta for Eastern California in Sacramento granted the stipulation of the Republican National Committee and Google setting a Jan. 9 deadline for the RNC to file its opposition to Google’s Nov. 16 motion to dismiss the…

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RNC’s first amended complaint (see 2311200061), said the judge’s signed order Monday (docket 2:22-cv-01904). Google’s reply brief in support of the motion to dismiss is due Feb. 8, said the order. Jan. 18 oral argument on the motion is vacated and reset for March 14 at 1:30 p.m. PDT, it said. The RNC alleges that many of its emails to Gmail users were sent to the users’ spam folders to discriminate against the RNC based on its political affiliations and views. Google’s motion to dismiss asserts that the RNC’s claims are based “on nothing but speculation and unreasonable inferences.”