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Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter
In the headline-grabbing case Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc., No. 17-cv-00939-WHA (N.D. Cal. Jan. 28, 2018), Plaintiff Waymo LLC (“Waymo”) sued Defendants Uber Technologies, Inc., and Ottomotto LLC (collectively, “Uber”) for misappropriation of trade secrets related to self-driving vehicle technology. On June 21, 2017, Waymo (a Google-owned company) moved for