Google Privacy Class Objectors Tell High Court Cy Pres-Only Settlement Is Unfair

Mealey's (July 12, 2018, 10:03 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two objectors to the $8.5 million settlement of a privacy class action against Google LLC tell the U.S. Supreme Court in a July 9 merits brief that the distribution of settlement funds to cy pres recipients, rather than class members, does not constitute a “fair, reasonable, and adequate” settlement of the class claims per Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 (Theodore H. Frank, et al. v. Paloma Gaos, et al., No. 17-961, U.S. Sup.)....