9th Circuit Revives False Advertising Class Claims Over Google's AdWords

Mealey's (September 3, 2020, 1:47 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A man who used Google LLC's AdWords program sufficiently established standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution for his false advertising and unfair competition claims based on Google's purported misrepresentations about accounting for "click fraud," a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Sept. 1, reversing and remanding a trial court's dismissal of his putative class complaint (Gurminder Singh v. Google LLC, No. 18-17035, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 27834)....