I corresponded with Noecker, who told me, “I did not request de-indexing of that content, this was done without my knowledge and was in error.” But when I asked him for the names of people who might have submitted the request, he didn’t get back to me about that. The requests were submitted under his name and also under the name Vanessa McGill; I tried to reach a lawyer I found with that name, but haven’t heard back from her.

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Google has not removed those stories, and I suspect that it likely won’t. Though it sometimes does deindex website posts that have been found to be defamatory, in my experience it has generally not done so simply when a newspaper story — or a similar publication — quotes someone who has been found guilty of libel as to such statements. (I’ll blog soon about several other cases in which there have been such deindexing attempts, though based on injunctions issued after a stipulated judgment, rather than a damages award issued after a default judgment, as here.)