BREAKING! Epstein Survivors File Class Action Lawsuit Against DOJ and Google Over Redaction Failures and Failure to Remove Unredacted Content. I have the Complaint
A group of Epstein survivors have just filed a class action lawsuit against the DOJ for failing to redact their information before releasing documents to the public. The lawsuit also names Google for failing to remove the content from search results and AI-generated content.
In the 29-page complaint (included for Notes from the Front members) "Jane Doe 1" explains that "Survivors now face renewed trauma. Strangers call them, email them, threaten their physical safety, and accuse them of conspiring with Epstein when they are, in reality, Epstein’s victims."
With respect to Google, the Complaint says that "Even after the government acknowledged the disclosure violated the rights of the survivors and withdrew the information, online entities like Google continuously republish it, refusing victim’s pleas to take it down."
I predict that this is going to be a tough case; the government may ultimately settle with the survivors, as the government *did* admit they screwed up.
However, as to Google, first, I highly doubt that they "refused"; more likely they said they "couldn't". And also it's going to be rather like trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube; Google can attempt to scrub any search results containing certain search terms, but they can't remove those search terms from the published sources - at best they can do a search term whack-a-mole. For this reason I predict that there will be a settlement with the survivors consisting of a "best effort" by Google and a large amount of money. (I also think it’s not out of the question that Google will then turn around and sue the DOJ for indemnification.)
Notes from the Front members: the survivor class action lawsuit complaint is below for you.
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