$13 Million Google Street View Privacy Settlement Appealed To 9th Circuit

Mealey's (August 18, 2020, 8:52 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A class member who objected to the $13 million settlement of a privacy class action over Google LLC's Street View feature took his fight to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an Aug. 12 brief, arguing that the cy pres-only nature of the settlement ignores the interests of absent class members and runs counter to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 (In re Google LLC Street View Electronic Communications Litigation [Benjamin Joffe, et al. v. Google Inc.], No. 20-15616, 9th Cir.)....