Supreme Court Declines To Hear Google’s Appeal Over AdWords Class Damages

Mealey's (June 6, 2016, 11:34 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its June 6 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied without comment a petition for certiorari by Google Inc. over an underlying grant of class certification in a class action over Google’s AdWords program brought under California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and false advertising law (FAL), to resolve what the Internet giant called a circuit split over whether individual damage calculations in class actions can be calculated using generalized proof (Google Inc. v. Pulaski & Middleman LLC, et al., No. 15-1101, U.S. Sup.)....