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  1. March 20, 2019

    High Court Boots Google Privacy Deal For Standing Issues

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday remanded an $8.5 million Google privacy class action settlement to a lower court, saying it could not address an underlying dispute over the deal's fairness because of questions over whether the Google users can plausibly claim to have suffered concrete harm.

  2. January 01, 2019

    Consumer Protection Cases To Watch In 2019

    The new year isn’t shaping up to be a restful one for consumer protection attorneys, with the full Ninth Circuit poised to hand down a decision on nationwide class settlements, the high court diving back into standing in the privacy context and the Federal Communications Commission grappling with the scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Here, Law360 rounds up the cases worth keeping an eye on in 2019.

  3. December 03, 2018

    Google Says Users Lack Standing In High Court Privacy Row

    A dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court over the fairness of an $8.5 million privacy deal that requires Google to pay nothing to class members has heated up, with the tech giant and the federal government arguing that the plaintiffs have failed to meet the Article III standing bar established by the high court’s Spokeo decision.

  4. November 07, 2018

    Justices To Scrutinize Google Users' Standing In Privacy Row

    Less than a week after hearing oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court wants to take a closer look at whether the 129 million Google users behind a disputed privacy class action deal have standing to have brought the case in the first place.

  5. October 31, 2018

    Google Settlement Snubbed Class Members, Justices Told

    The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical of whether Google Inc.'s so-called cy pres settlement of a privacy class action was fair, under which $2 million went to class counsel, $5 million went to third parties chosen by class counsel and the company, and zilch went to the 129 million Google users who made up the class.

  6. October 30, 2018

    9th Circ. Ruling Moot In Google Payout Deal, Justices Told

    Google users at the center of an $8.5 million privacy settlement that the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider Wednesday have fired back at the challengers' bid to inject a Ninth Circuit ruling into their dispute over the fairness of the cy pres deal, writing off the comparison as "a late-arriving and less than fully explored anecdote."

  7. October 24, 2018

    Disputers Of Google Privacy Deal Cite 9th Circ. Award Ruling

    Challengers to Google's $8.5 million privacy settlement, the fairness of which the U.S. Supreme Court will consider next week, have cited a recent Ninth Circuit approval of a "cy pres" deal distributing class action awards to third parties and not consumers as reason for the high court to wade into the issue.

  8. October 01, 2018

    High Court To Hear From Gov't In Google Privacy Deal Row

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for the U.S. solicitor general to participate in arguments later this month in a dispute over the fairness of an $8.5 million privacy settlement that requires Google to pay millions to third parties and nothing to class members, as the challengers continued to press the justices to ax the "inferior" deal.

  9. September 06, 2018

    State AGs At Odds Over Google Privacy Pact At High Court

    Attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, Illinois, New York and several other states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold an $8.5 million privacy settlement requiring Google to pay millions to third parties and nothing to class members, going against 19 fellow state attorneys general who in July stumped for the opposite result.

  10. August 30, 2018

    Google, Class Urge High Court To Bless $8.5M Privacy Pact

    Google and a class of consumers on Wednesday shot back at bid before the U.S. Supreme Court to erase an $8.5 million privacy settlement under which class members stand to receive none of the funds, arguing that such deals benefit consumers that stand to recover only "paltry sums" as part of massive classes while keeping down the cost of litigation. 

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