Plaintiffs suing Google over Chrome data collection ask US appeals court for redo
By Mike Swift ( June 26, 2025, 21:35 GMT | Insight) -- Saying a recent decision by a federal judge in California handing a privacy win to Google was in "direct conflict" with an earlier appeals court ruling in the case, a group of plaintiffs asked the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to assign the same three appeals court judges to decide whether US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers improperly ignored the Ninth Circuit panel's 2024 decision.A federal judge improperly ignored an appeals court in handing Google a key privacy win in litigation over data collections from users not logged into a Google account, the plaintiffs said in petitioning the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to declare a rare “comeback case.”...
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