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  1. September 02, 2025

    Google Advertisers' Attys Get $30M As $100M Deal Approved

    A California federal judge on Friday granted final approval of a $100 million settlement resolving a long-running certified class action that accused Google of overcharging for advertisements, authorizing $30 million in attorney fees as part of the deal — more than a $25 million benchmark but below a desired $33 million.

  2. April 16, 2025

    Google's $100M AdWords Deal Gets Initial Approval

    A California federal judge said Wednesday he'll preliminarily approve Google's $100 million settlement that would resolve advertisers' long-running certified class action alleging the tech giant overcharged for advertisements through its AdWords service, saying the 14-year-old litigation was hard fought, but the settlement appears to be fair.

  3. March 28, 2025

    Google To Pay $100M To Resolve AdWords Action

    Groups of Google advertisers asked a California federal judge Thursday to greenlight a $100 million settlement that would resolve their long-running class claims that the tech company overcharged them for advertisements.

  4. August 16, 2023

    Google Must Face Some Certified Class In AdWords Suit

    A California federal judge ruled that several groups of advertisers suing Google alleging they were overcharged for ads will be allowed to proceed as certified subclasses in the long-running litigation, but certain subclasses had not yet shown they could be litigated together under common questions.

  5. October 24, 2018

    Google Nixes One AdWords Class Rep, But Another Survives

    A California federal judge has killed one plaintiff's class claims alleging he was overcharged by Google LLC, finding once again that his relationship to class counsel presents a conflict, but allowed another plaintiff's claims to proceed.

  6. August 23, 2018

    Conflicted Class Rep. Loses Cert. Bid In Google Ad Suit

    A California federal judge declined to certify a class of thousands of online advertisers allegedly overcharged by Google LLC, finding Thursday that the named plaintiff, an attorney who was hired as a partner with a law firm that once worked the case, presents a conflict of interest.

  7. August 16, 2018

    Atty Suing Google Sees No Conflict With Law Firm

    A lawyer seeking to represent thousands of online advertisers in a suit against Google urged a California federal judge Thursday to certify a class and reject the tech giant's objections that the named plaintiff — himself an attorney —is now a partner at a law firm that once worked on the case.

  8. August 11, 2014

    Google Sanctioned For Flouting Order In AdWords Case

    A California federal judge sanctioned Google Inc. on Friday, finding that the tech titan violated a court order to quickly hand over log files from its AdWords service that are key to a proposed class action accusing Google of overcharging businesses that use its ad-placement service.

  9. August 05, 2014

    AdWords Users Want Google Sanctioned In Overcharging Row

    A proposed class of businesses accusing Google Inc. of overcharging for its AdWords advertising placement service urged a California federal judge on Tuesday to sanction the search giant for refusing to provide information from a massive database in a comprehensible format that would help the plaintiffs craft their case.

  10. April 09, 2013

    Google AdWords Suit Survives In Last-Chance Effort

    A proposed California class action accusing Google Inc. of unfairly applying its AdWords advertising pricing policies largely survived a dismissal bid Tuesday after being given one final opportunity to cure pleading deficiencies that gutted the suit in its first two incarnations.