Google, Microsoft case over Lee stalls in Calif.
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A federal judge in San Jose, Calif., granted Microsoft's motion to stay a countersuit filed by Google in the dispute over the search giant's hiring of Kai-Fu Lee.
According to Chris Scott Graham, an attorney with the law firm Dechert LLP, Judge Ronald Whyte of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said, "I'm going to put this on hold." Graham said that, while Google could petition to lift the stay, courts are reluctant to have the same dispute being heard at same time in multiple forums. "Judge Whyte has said in his order that it's appropriate to allow the matter to proceed in Washington before he continues on to address the matter on the merits," he said.