October 16, 2024
After six years of litigation against Google parent company Alphabet Inc., including a successful bid to revive the suit before the Ninth Circuit, class action firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured a $350 million settlement for investors by not being deterred by setbacks.
September 30, 2024
A California federal judge on Monday gave final approval to Alphabet's $350 million deal settling a Google data breach securities suit and awarded $66.5 million for attorney fees amid objections, calling the deal "an excellent result" and noting the 19% cut was below the benchmark for similar cases.
September 24, 2024
Counsel for Google LLC shareholders who reached a $350 million settlement with Alphabet Inc. over claims they were deceived about a 2018 data breach urged a California federal judge Tuesday to approve the deal, including about $66.5 million for attorneys, calling the fees more than reasonable.
April 09, 2024
A California federal judge on Tuesday gave the first green light to a $350 million settlement between Google's parent company, Alphabet, and investors over claims the company deceived them about a March 2018 software glitch that allegedly gave third-party app developers the ability to access the private profile data of 500,000 users of the Google Plus social media site.
February 06, 2024
Google's parent company Alphabet and a proposed class of investors have reached a $350 million settlement to end claims that the company deceived them about a March 2018 software glitch that allegedly gave third-party app developers the ability to access the private profile data of 500,000 users of the Google Plus social media site.
October 04, 2023
Investors suing Google over an alleged data breach should not be granted class certification, a Stanford University law professor has told a California federal court, arguing the investors can't meet the certification standards set by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2021 Goldman Sachs decision.
October 15, 2018
Google's failure to disclose in at least two federal securities filings a March data leak that came to light last week deceived the investing public and caused the tech giant's shares to be traded at artificially inflated prices for months, according to a proposed shareholder class action filed in California federal court.