The Google antitrust trial has been frustratingly locked down — the NYT just filed a motion to open it up

This is the best summary I could come up with:

But it appears to have held sway over Judge Mehta, who has made public access to the trial only slightly easier since it started.

The motion is supported by Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, MLex, and Law360 and argues that Judge Mehta hold hearings before closing the courtroom and provide timely access to exhibits and testimony.

The motion also argues that exhibits should be posted in a timely manner and that witness testimony should be unsealed and unredacted unless specific reasons are given.

In particular, the motion argues that the testimony of Apple’s Eddy Cue and Google’s Jerry Dischler should be completely unsealed, “given the absence of any justification for these redactions.”

Full disclosure: I’ve asked our legal team to sign The Verge and Vox Media on to any further motions of this kind since covering this trial has basically sucked.

You can think whatever you want of Google or the DOJ, but it’s pretty universal that holding a trial of this magnitude behind closed doors means Judge Mehta is asking us to trust him just a little too much.

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