Sending Google Settlement Funds To Only Cy Pres Groups ‘Legal Error,’ Objectors Say

(September 19, 2024, 9:03 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Approval of a plan to distribute most of a $62 million settlement in a consolidated class action over Google Inc.’s collection of users’ location data to cy pres organizations while class members receive nothing runs afoul of a revised rule of federal procedure, warranting reversal and remand, three settlement objectors tell the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in their opening brief....