Fairness, Standing Argued In High Court Over Google Privacy Cy Pres Settlement

Mealey's (October 31, 2018, 4:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 31 heard arguments about the propriety of cy pres settlements of class actions, with Google LLC, the federal government, a class of Google users and objectors to a class settlement all offering their opinions on whether such a settlement was fair in an underlying privacy case (Theodore H. Frank, et al. v. Paloma Gaos, et al., No. 17-961, U.S. Sup.)....