Supreme Court raises eyebrows at Google's cozy $8.5m legal deal

Supreme Court raises eyebrows at Google's cozy $8.5m legal deal

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/31/supreme_court_google/

The US Supreme Court is distinctly unimpressed with a cozy deal cooked up by Google's lawyers after the ad giant lost an $8.5m class action lawsuit for violating user privacy.

On Wednesday, the nation's top court was asked to tighten up rules over so-called "cy pres" settlements where most, or sometimes all, of a settlement doesn't go to the people affected but instead to the lawyers that argued the case and organizations that they themselves chose.