/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/YONZCZSXKZILLLHN7HB7BWHZJE.jpg?fit=758%2C9999&ssl=1 "Achieved? Google executives’ appraisals sought in U.S. antitrust case")
The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, California, U.S. August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Lawyers for the Justice Department and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google tangled on Thursday over whether the company should hand over performance reviews of executives whom the government is considering calling as witnesses.
In a pre-trial hearing, Kenneth Dintzer, speaking for the Justice Department, gave the example of an executive who might say in a self-assessment that Google has hit 85% market share in a certain area and his or her goal is to increase it. Dintzer stressed…
