The Supreme Court rejected a per saltum filed by Google for the lawsuit that Cristina de Kirchner

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The lawsuit was initiated by the vice president, after the search engine, instead of describing her institutional position, published the legend "Thief from Argentina" in her knowledge panel. In response, Google tried to go to the highest court.

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation unanimously rejected the appeal per saltum presented by Google LLC in response to the lawsuit filed by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , after the search engine published in its panel instead of describing her institutional position of knowledge the legend "Thief of Argentina".

Google already had a resolution against him from the National Chamber of Federal Civil and Commercial Appeals that had enabled the former president to access the server of the technology giant, by making room for an advance test request.

Through her lawyer Carlos Beraldi, Cristina requested weeks ago an "urgent" IT expertise against Google, and anticipated that if the lawsuit prospers and financial compensation is imposed, the amounts received will be donated to the “Sor María Ludovica Children's Hospital. ”De La Plata (he had done the same with the compensation for tens of thousands of euros that the Italian newspaper“ Corriere Della Sera ”had to pay him, also for defamation).

Luis Goldin , Cristina's other lawyer who is an expert in this type of litigation, describes the reasons for the lawsuit against Google and assured that the vice president does not seek financial gain, nor does she censor content that the web platform publishes in the Content Panel. "We want it to provide truthful information that does not violate the most personal rights," said the specialist in damage quantification and a master's degree in law and economics.

“Freedom of expression is not a freedom to harm others. With freedom of expression I cannot say Thief of the Argentine Nation to her, or to any other citizen ”, remarked Goldin, who clarified that it is not a criminal case and that Cristina does not have to present a statement.

According to the brief presented before the Federal Civil and Commercial Court, which was accessed by this medium, the Justice was requested to “arbitrate all the necessary means to download and store all the data associated with the name Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Cristina Kirchner, from 05/17/2020 until the day on which this expertise is carried out, arising from the content of the knowledge panel of the “Google” search engine of a prominent person. "

The Federal Civil and Commercial Judge Javier Pico Terrero made a request for early evidence and Google filed an appeal, considering the issuance of that measure "inadmissible" , since the reasons cited by the Civil and Commercial Code for that were not met. type of requisitions.

The Chamber validated the first instance resolution and dismissed Google's appeal in a ruling in which it stressed "the unappealable nature of the judge's decisions on production, denial and substantiation of evidence."

However, Google appealed to the highest court in the country, arguing that "the resolution appealed not only affects Google, but millions of users who will see the confidentiality of their data compromised."

In this context, Google filed a per saltum before the Supreme Court to prevent a computer expertise from being carried out and that "puts people's privacy and the functioning of the server at risk."

But this Thursday, October 8, the highest court rejected the extraordinary proposal. The Court , on the basis of its precedents, said that the extraordinary appeal by jump of instance is inadmissible when, as in the case, it is promoted against a sentence handed down by the superior court of the case.