The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday stopped short of prohibiting a form of class action settlements in which funds awarded go to unrelated third parties and lawyers but not to the parties making ...

(Reuters) - There’s a lot of sound and fury in the class action bar about the propriety of so-called cy pres-only settlements, in which all of the settlement money goes to charity instead of to class ...

(Reuters) - Class action settlements that deliver money only to nonprofits instead of class members have become vanishingly rare, with only a handful proposed in the last several years. And now a new ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices divide on an internet privacy case involving Google (GOOG +5.3%)(GOOGL +5.5%) and whether to restrict a type of class action lawsuit settlement that awards money to ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday signed off on a controversial $8.5 million deal that Google Inc. reached to settle a class action claiming the company shared information about users' search queries ...

Former Google security vetrans raise $13M for their startup, AegisAI. This aims to fight email security threats, which are ...