Eric Goldman reports that a United States District Court sided with Google over a lawsuit issued by e-ventures Worldwide, LLC against Google for deindexing some of their sites.

The court said Google has every right to do so for several reasons including the first amendment. Here is the snippet from the judgment:

Here is the full document as a PDF.

Eric Goldman said “of course Google can de-index sites it thinks are spam. It’s hard to believe we’re still litigating that issue in 2017.”

Matt Cutts, former Googler, wrote on Twitter:

So save your money and don’t sue Google over getting a penalty.

Forum discussion at Twitter.