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Google's cy pres-only Street View settlement in class action doesn't provide meaningful relief, state attorneys general say

( August 19, 2020, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google's $13 million cy pres-only settlement resolving privacy litigation over its Street View data collection offers no meaningful injunctive relief compared to that obtained in 2013, according to 13 state attorneys general. “Put simply, because absent class members here receive no part of the settlement fund, no meaningful injunctive relief, and no other direct benefit in exchange for the release of their claims, the settlement class should not have been certified and the settlement should not have been approved; it cannot be a valid resolution under Rule 23 to approve a settlement that aggregates absent class members’ claims solely to extinguish those claims without a direct benefit, making the absent class members definitively worse off through settlement,” they write.See document below. ...

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