Google’s quest to get a federal court to block enforcement of a Canadian Supreme Court decision requiring the search giant to delist certain search results worldwide has seemingly gotten a step easier.

Google’s lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan filed court papers Tuesday claiming Canadian electronics company Equustek—the company that won the worldwide removal order of certain Google search results from the Canadian high court in June—has indicated it doesn’t intend to defend itself in Google’s U.S. lawsuit. Google sued Equustek in July in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California seeking a ruling that the Canadian court order violates the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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