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Justice Department Says It Still Has Problems With Revised Google SettlementPosted at 7:25AM Friday 05 Feb 2010 The Department of Justice dealt a serious blow Thursday evening to the chances that the Google Book Search settlement will gain court approval later this month when it found that the revised agreement still raises class certification, copyright and antitrust issues. The DOJ said that despite "good faith" efforts to modify the agreement, "the amended settlement agreement suffers from the same core problem as the original agreement: it is an attempt to use the class action mechanism to implement forward-looking business arrangements that go far beyond the dispute before the court in this litigation."
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