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Joe Mullin, Ars Technica
Sun, 12/21/2014 - 3:30pm

It appears that Mississippi AG Jim Hood is making a strategic retreat in the wake of publicity about his investigation of Google. On Friday morning, Google sued Hood, saying that a 79-page subpoena he had sent to the company was "punitive," and violated Google's First and Fourth Amendment rights. The company also pointed to recent press reports that showed Hollywood studios had lobbied heavily for the investigation. Later that day, Hood sent a statement to the New York Times saying that he's "calling a time out, so that cooler heads may prevail." Hood says he wants to negotiate a "peaceful resolution to the issues affecting consumers" that he and other state AGs have pointed out in a series of letters. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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