With information from: The Economist

Google Inc. is responsible for allowing the creation and dissemination of a blog that damages the patrimonial rights of citizen Ulrich Richter Morales, as determined by the Eighth Civil Chamber of Mexico City, which is why it must pay compensation of 5,000 million pesos (about 250 million dollars).

As announced, the court determined that Google is responsible for allowing the creation and dissemination of a blog on the Blogger platform, owned by the company, which harms the rights to personality and honor of Richter Morales.

It must be remembered that this sentence is a new stage in an old legal battle between Richter Morales and Google Inc. that began in 2015 when Richter denounced the US company, its subsidiary in Mexico, and the author of the blog and demanded compensation for damage moral and punitive damages.

In this sense, Richter reproached the company for having allowed the creation and dissemination of the blog entitled “Ulrich Richter Morales and his chingaderas a la Patria,” in which publications were made with the alleged authorship of Richter in which it is stated that the lawyer taught his wife to “falsify documents and get out clean,” accompanied by photographs of Richter and his family and graphic alterations of the cover of one of his books.

The court confirmed that the blog’s author is Alejandro Gutiérrez Torres and that Google Inc. is responsible for having tolerated and allowed the blog to spread. Google Mexico was released because this subsidiary is not responsible for the operation of the Blogger service.

THEY WILL APPEAL THE SENTENCE: An official Google source considered the new sentence to be “arbitrary, excessive and without any basis” and announced that the company “will defend itself to the last instance.”

“The ruling violates freedom of expression and other fundamental principles, and we trust that the federal courts will act strictly with the law,” he emphasized.