Google, at the Supreme Court, Defends Settlement That Would Leave Class With Pennies
Google Inc. tells the U.S. Supreme Court there was nothing unfair or unreasonable about the tech company's $8.5 million settlement of a privacy class action in which $5.3 million of the funds go to third parties and none to members of the class. Class members—more than 100 million Google users—each would have received 4 cents, court records show. The Google settlement directs settlement funds to be distributed proportionally to six recipients that are devoted to web privacy.
March 12, 2018 at 12:15 PM
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Google Inc. has told the U.S. Supreme Court there was nothing unfair or unreasonable about the tech company's $8.5 million settlement of a class action in which $5.3 million of the funds go to third parties and none to members of the class.
In urging the justices to deny review in Frank v. Gaos, Mayer Brown partner Donald Falk, representing Google, argued the cy pres-only settlement “will benefit the class as a whole by funding closely targeted projects that are directly connected to the internet privacy issues raised by plaintiffs' claims.” Falk, a partner in the firm's Palo Alto, California, office, said the “recipient institutions are of the highest quality and specialize in internet consumer issues.”
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