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Google lawsuit by Authors Guild suspended

People walk past a Google stand at the

Photo credit: Getty Images | People walk past a Google stand at the Campus Party 2012 technology festival at former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany. (Aug. 22, 2012)

A U.S. appeals court judge on Monday suspended trial court litigation involving Google Inc. and thousands of authors pending appeal by the search engine giant of an order granting the authors class-action status.

A one-sentence order by a Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge in New York said the Authors Guild, which sued Google seven years ago over the company's plans to create the world's...

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