Google, Class Members Defend Privacy Suit Cy Pres Settlement To Supreme Court

(March 16, 2018, 3:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The settlement of a privacy class action over search query referrer headers appropriately included a payment of $5.3 million to privacy advocate cy pres recipients, Google LLC and the class representatives argue in a pair of March 9 briefs, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a petition for certiorari filed by two class members who had objected to the settlement as collusive and not of benefit to the class (Theodore H. Frank, et al. v. Paloma Gaos, et al., No. 17-961, U.S. Sup.)....