Judge rules against Mississippi attorney general over Google

US District Judge Henry Wingate ruled against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood (D) in his effort to keep Google from getting its hands on correspondence between AG Hood and lobbyists for the movie industry. It's the latest defeat for AG Hood in his effort to investigate the company, after the same judge wrote a stinging opinion in March suggesting that AG Hood sent a 79-page subpoena to Google as retaliation for the company's refusal to buckle under to Hood's objections about what it posts online. AG Hood, though, may have the chance to launch a counteroffensive, as he hosts a conference of attorneys general in Biloxi (MS) examining online crime issues.