SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is letting stand Facebook Inc.’s $9.5 million settlement resolving privacy claims. But a conservative bloc of judges isn’t happy about it.
The court issued an order Tuesday denying en banc rehearing of last year’s panel decision upholding a settlement in Lane v. Facebook, 08-3845, the suit that targeted the site’s discontinued "Beacon" feature. The settlement directs more than $6 million to a newly created organization for online privacy on top of attorney fees.
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