Google may be having its share of recessionary stumbles, but compared to most of techdom it’s still smooth sailing over in Mountain View. And apparently that’s enough to make everyone want to sue. Three potential legal threats are looming in the news today around Google: One deemed a non-issue, another that should be deemed a non-issue, and one a very serious and troubling issue.Let’s look at them in order of most frivolous first. Remember the Pennsylvania couple who sued Google last spring for taking pictures of its house and posting them on Google Street View? The aptly named case, Boring v. Google, has been handily dismissed. The courts wisely struck down the idea that Google was compromising the couple’s privacy since, ahem, they launched a suit calling more attention to their house than an obscure picture on Google Street View ever would have in the first place. It also said the trucks driving by weren’t enough to be considered trespassing, threw out the idea that the whole thing had caused emotional distress, and just generally told the Borings to get a life. Score one for justice and capitalism working hand-in-hand.But today Google has to contend with a new case that’s almost as absurd. TradeComet, which already complained to the New York Times that Google is upping its advertising rates unfairly, is now suing Google for antitrust.

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