{"id":2432,"date":"2024-08-28T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/google-repped-by-king-spalding-countersues-russian-media-outlets-over-alleged-u-s-sanctions-violations\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:34:51","slug":"google-repped-by-king-spalding-countersues-russian-media-outlets-over-alleged-u-s-sanctions-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/google-repped-by-king-spalding-countersues-russian-media-outlets-over-alleged-u-s-sanctions-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Repped by King &#038; Spalding, Countersues Russian Media Outlets Over Alleged U.S. Sanctions Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Google, represented by King &amp; Spalding, filed three breach-of-contract countersuits against Russian media outlets to enjoin them from enforcing a Russian court judgment to unblock their Google accounts and YouTube channels in violation of sanctions passed after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The suits were filed on Aug. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against <a href=\"https:\/\/pdfserver.amlaw.com\/legalradar\/pm-54773101_complaint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV-Novosti<\/a>, which operates the\u00a0Russian government-funded TV network RT; media company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pdfserver.amlaw.com\/legalradar\/pm-54773102_complaint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NO Fond Pravoslavnogo Televideniya<\/a> (NFPT), which distributes a TV channel associated with the Russian Orthodox Church; and <a href=\"https:\/\/pdfserver.amlaw.com\/legalradar\/pm-54773100_complaint.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NAO Tsargrad Media<\/a> (Tsargrad), a TV station owned by Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev,\u00a0who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/russian-oligarch-charged-violating-us-sanctions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> by the U.S. Department of Justice in April 2022\u00a0with violating U.S. sanctions \u201carising from the 2014 Russian undermining of democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, represented by King &amp; Spalding, filed three breach-of-contract countersuits against Russian media outlets to enjoin them from enforcing a Russian court judgment to unblock their Google accounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[460,3202,585,428,410,3204,3201,3203,980,1184,272,3163],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-alleged","tag-countersues","tag-google","tag-king","tag-media","tag-outlets","tag-repped","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-spalding","tag-u-s","tag-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}