Supreme Court To Decide Fairness Of Google Privacy Cy Pres Class Settlement

Mealey's (April 30, 2018, 11:08 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 granted certiorari in a dispute over the fairness of the settlement of a privacy class action against Google LLC, in which two objectors contend that the distribution of the $8.5 million settlement to cy pres recipients, rather than to class members, does not constitute a “fair, reasonable, and adequate” settlement of the class claims (Theodore H. Frank, et al. v. Paloma Gaos, et al., No. 17-961, U.S. Sup.)....