<ul><li>US District Judge rules that Google intentionally destroyed employee "chat" evidence in antitrust litigation in California.</li><li>Google "fell strikingly short" in its duties to preserve records, according to the ruling, and must pay sanctions and face a possible penalty at trial.</li><li>The multidistrict litigation includes a consumer class action with as many as 21 million residents, 38 states and the District of Columbia, and companies including Epic Games and Match Group.</li><li>The trial is scheduled to begin in November, and plaintiffs are seeking aggregate damages of $4.7 billion for Google's alleged monopoly for distributing Android mobile applications.</li></ul>

Google intentionally destroyed employee "chat" evidence, says US judge

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