Google coordinates brief against Trump's order

San Francisco

GOOGLE parent Alphabet Inc is organising the funding of the legal brief signed by more than 120 companies that oppose US President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, according to people familiar with the arrangement.

While Alphabet is coordinating with Washington, DC-based law firm Mayer Brown LLP to handle the friend-of-the-court brief, other companies have offered to fund a share of the costs, the sources said. Alphabet plans to accept the offers, said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. A representative for the search giant declined to comment.