Farrell v. Schoemaker

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AMENDED COMPLAINT against Defendant Jeremy Schoemaker, by Attorney J. Scott Paul on behalf of Keyen Farrell (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F, # 7 Exhibit G)(Paul, J.)

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May 18,2009 at 5:59pm ET by Danny Sullvan
Earlier this month, my Why Hasn't Google Cleared. Fired Or Susnended Accused AdWords Employee? article asked why Google hadn't yet publicly commented about accusations that one of their employees may have abused the
AdWords system for his own benefit. Now the company is speaking up - and saying it has found no wrongdoing.

Google's sent me this statement:

The privacy and security of our users and advertisers' account information is a top priority for us, and our internal policies prohibit any use of non-public advertiser data for personal gain. After a thorough investigation, we found no indication that any employee purposefully tampered with or circumvented any of those policies, processes or procedures, including our trademark fitering process. Due to an unelated human error, however, some ads with the "Shoemoney" trademark in the text were unintentionally allowed to run. The error has since been corrected, and the ads ran only for a short time.
Talking with the company a bit further, it stressed that the human error was on the part of another AdWords employee, not Keyen Farrell, who is the defendant in the case Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker has filed involving the use of his trademarks in AdWords copy.

Taking over a month to investigate the situation and make this needed comment stil seems a long time, but at least we got there in the end.

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Meanwhile, Schoemaker informs us today that that the defense has withdraw its motion for dismissal, so the case wil stay in Nebraska and move into the discovery process.

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Wow, big surrise that Google wasn't able to find any ilegal activity. Kind of

reminds me of all the times they haven't been able to find any CLICK FRAUD, price gouging or unfair business practices loll
Got to love when the corporate monster shows its teeth!

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