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Google will face a lawsuit in California accusing the company of bias against Conservative candidates in the first lawsuit brought against it by James Damore, author of the famous "Google memo" of 2017.
Damore left the trial last year and entered arbitration with the company. The complaint, which alleges that Google's hiring practices are biased against Whites and Asians, conservatives and men, will go ahead after surviving a motion to dismiss the company. In a statement, the law firm representing the plaintiffs said the complaint would now move to the discovery phase.
The plaintiffs in this case are seeking to obtain a group certificate to represent other people who, according to them, have been discriminated against, decision that the court will render at a later date.
In legal filings, Google has challenged the fact that the Conservatives are an identifiable clbad under the law. In one decision, the judge in charge of the case said that the court "actually had doubts" about the viability of the idea, but that it leaves, for the time being, the deal advance. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision.
In 2017, Damore published a note challenging Google's diversity practices and blurring the gap between engineering investments and gender differences. The memo was widely shared and criticized in Google, then in the world, and Damore was eventually fired by the company. His attempt to fight the dismissal included the filing of a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, which had decided that Google had the right to fire Damore.
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