( September 23, 2026, 2:19 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel issued its mandate after affirming in a split opinion a lower court’s final approval of a $62 million class action settlement providing injunctive relief and resolving claims that Google LLC unlawfully stored users’ location data after they disabled the “Location History” feature, with the majority holding that direct distribution was infeasible and that the approved cy pres recipients had a sufficient nexus to the class’s privacy interests; one judge dissented on the basis that the record did not establish that direct distribution to class members was infeasible....