Google, Plaintiffs Defend Street View Privacy Cy Pres Settlement In 9th Circuit

Mealey's (October 19, 2020, 1:20 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court judge correctly found that the distribution of a $13 million settlement fund of a long-running privacy class action over Google LLC’s “Street View” feature would be infeasible, Google and the named plaintiffs argued in their respective appellee briefs on Oct. 13, asking to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to find that the settlement’s cy pres-only nature was appropriate, despite the representations of an objecting class member (In re Google LLC Street View Electronic Communications Litigation [Benjamin Joffe, et al. v. Google Inc.], No. 20-15616, 9th Cir.)....