前沿资讯：谷歌试图避免陪审团审判

Google waves around a cashier’s check in an attempt to avoid a jury trial
谷歌绕过银行本票试图避免陪审团审判

An unusual document appeared last week in the docket for the Department of Justice’s second antimonopoly lawsuit against Google. It included a photocopy of a check that Google claimed was good for the “maximum amount of damages” claimed in the case for its alleged anticompetitive actions in its ad tech business. Google said it had written the check to the Department of Justice.
上周，司法部针对谷歌的第二起反垄断诉讼的案卷中出现了一份不寻常的文件。 其中包括一张支票的复印件，谷歌声称该支票有助于其在广告技术业务中涉嫌反竞争行为的案件中索赔的“最高赔偿金额”。 谷歌表示，它已将支票写给司法部。

Legal experts say the photocopy of a cashier’s check was definitely strange. But the DOJ took things to a weird place first. According to experts, although it might not strike a layperson as such, the DOJ’s decision to demand a jury trial is just as bizarre as, say, waving around a cashier’s check for maximum damages in an attempt to escape a jury trial.
法律专家表示，银行本票的复印件绝对很奇怪。 但司法部首先将事情带到了一个奇怪的地方。 专家表示，尽管外行人可能不会感到惊讶，但司法部要求陪审团审判的决定就像挥舞银行本票以获得最大损害赔偿以试图逃避陪审团审判一样奇怪。

“It is a creative response to an unusual strategy,” Howard University School of Law professor Andrew Gavil wrote to The Verge. “Like chess: move and countermove.”
霍华德大学法学院教授安德鲁·加维尔（Andrew Gavil）在给 The Verge 的信中写道：“这是对不寻常策略的创造性回应。” “就像国际象棋一样：走棋和反棋。”

Eileen Scallen, who teaches civil procedure at UCLA School of Law, said she was “surprised” by the government’s request for a jury in this case. “This case will be highly technical and pretty dull in parts,” she said in an email. “But having the potential for a jury adds a ‘wild card’ into Google’s calculations, so it would make them more likely to settle.”
在加州大学洛杉矶分校法学院教授民事诉讼程序的艾琳·斯卡伦表示，她对政府在此案中设立陪审团的要求感到“惊讶”。 “这个案子技术性很强，而且有些部分相当乏味，”她在一封电子邮件中说。 “但是，陪审团的存在为谷歌的计算增添了一张‘通配符’，因此他们更有可能达成和解。”