Objectors To Google Privacy Cy Pres Settlement Inform High Court Of New Ruling

Mealey's (October 26, 2018, 8:15 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eight days before the scheduled oral argument in a dispute over the fairness of cy pres settlements in class actions, two objectors to the settlement in a privacy lawsuit against Google LLC filed a supplemental brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 23, reporting a recent Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that they say demonstrates “the pernicious affects” such settlements can have (Theodore H. Frank, et al. v. Paloma Gaos, et al., No. 17-961, U.S. Sup.)....