Legal Opinion
Google Referrer Header Privacy Litigation v. Holyoak
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 22, 2017No. 15-15858PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge WALLACE
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge;
Google’s free Internet search engine (“Google Search”) processes more than one billion user-generated search requests every day. This case arises from class action claims that Google violated users’ privacy by disclosing their Internet search terms to owners of third-party websites. We consider whether the district court abused its discretion in approving the $8.5 million cy pres-only settlement and conclude that it did not.
Background
In these consolidated class actions, three Google Search users — Paloma…
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