United States:
Supreme Court To Review Online Search Company's Cy Pres Settlement
09 July 2018
by
Daniel J. McLoon
,
Mauricio Paez
,
Richard Johnson
,
Jonathon Little
,
Todd McClelland
,
Jeff Rabkin
,
Lisa M. Ropple
,
Adam Salter
,
Michiru Takahashi
,
Undine Von Diemar
,
Olivier Haas
,
Jörg Hladjk
and
Anand Varadarajan
Jones Day
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On April 30, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari for
review of a settlement agreement in which an online search company
agreed to pay millions of dollars to third-party privacy nonprofit
organizations, while providing nothing to users of the company, to
settle allegations of illegal information-sharing with advertisers.
The review marks the first instance in which the Supreme Court will
consider cy pres remedies, where awards in a class action
are provided to a non-party in place of providing the award to the
plaintiff class.
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