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Court orderOctober 8, 2026Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Google LLC · S.D.N.Y. 1:26-cv-05870

Judge hears argument on Google's bid to move the publishers' Gemini suit from New York to California and reserves decision

Judge Loretta A. Preska held oral argument on Oct. 8 on Google's letter request, filed Aug. 4, about its planned motion to transfer the publishers' and authors' proposed class action to the Northern District of California, where the consolidated authors' case against Google is pending. The court's minute entry says only that argument was held and that the court reserved decision, so there is no ruling yet on where the case will be heard. A separate text order the same day opened a listen-only phone line for the argument after a media request. The suit alleges Google trained Gemini on copies of books it obtained for Google Books and on web scrapes that include text from pirate sites; those are allegations, and the hearing did not address them. Two publisher and author suits against Meta were transferred from New York to California in recent weeks.

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