Steffen Johnson hired to represent Pichai, YouTube
YouTube, Pichai also name two Florida lawyers for suit
Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube have hired D.C. litigator Steffen Johnson and a team of lawyers from Wilson Sonsini to represent them in former President Donald Trump’s First Amendment lawsuit.
The class action lawsuit is one of three led by Trump’s lawyer John P. Coale, a personal injury litigator known for taking on the tobacco and gun industries, against major tech companies YouTube, Twitter Inc., and Facebook Inc. Trump is challenging decisions to ban him from the social media platforms.
Johnson, a Supreme Court litigation veteran, joined Wilson Sonsini in 2019 after nearly 15 years with Winston & Strawn. In 2016, he helped represent New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in his “Deflategate” suspension appeal against the National Football League.
Wilson Sonsini partner Brian Willen also filed paperwork Tuesday to appear in the case. Stearns Weaver Miller shareholders Abigail Corbett and Jay B. Shapiro are serving as local counsel for Pichai and YouTube, a unit of Alphabet’s Google.
The suits, which allege that the social media platforms violated Trump’s and others’ First Amendment rights, have been called “frivolous” by multiple legal scholars because the companies are private entities, not governed by the Constitution. Coale, however, has said he’s confident in Trump’s legal arguments.
Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment...
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