Trudy v. Google

A pro-life advocate had 11 years’ worth of photos, contacts, calendars, and personal information stored within her Google account. One day—without any explanation—it was gone. Thomas More Society is representing Trudy Perez-Poveda, a 76-year-old Florida resident and longtime pro-life community leader, in a lawsuit against multinational big-tech giant, Google.  

On September 23, 2023, Trudy used her Google account to send an email to the pro-life group she is involved with, Family For Life, announcing an upcoming outdoor Catholic Mass to take place across the street from a local Jacksonville abortion facility. The email stated that the preborn would be remembered “[p]rayerfully, peacefully and reverently.”  

About an hour after Trudy sent this email, Google notified her that her account had been suspended. The lawsuit, which aims to enforce parts of Florida’s groundbreaking anti-censorship law, seeks to return Trudy’s property to her, which Google itself acknowledges belongs to her and not to Google.  

Florida’s anti-censorship law prohibits large social-media companies such as Google from censoring or deplatforming private users without first providing a prompt and thorough explanation to the user. Thomas More Society attorneys are working to restore Trudy’s rightful property to her by enforcing Florida’s anti-censorship law.