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 represented Trudy Perez-Poveda, a Florida resident and longtime pro-life community leader, in a lawsuit against multinational big-tech giant, Google, and successfully secured the return of her data.

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, cutting her off from more than a decade of stored emails, photographs, calendars, contacts, and personal data. Thomas More Society filed suit to enforce parts of Florida's groundbreaking anti-censorship law and to return Trudy's property to her, which Google itself acknowledged belonged 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. After nearly two years of litigation, Trudy's data was fully restored, and Thomas More Society dismissed the lawsuit on July 30, 2025, referring the matter to the Florida Attorney General's Office.