Google Settlement Parties Split Over Standing

Google , consumers and others involved in an $8.5 million privacy settlement continue to argue over whether the suit should be before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The class and a settlement objector, in supplemental reply briefs filed Dec. 21, argue the consumers suffered sufficient harm by Google’s practice of sharing their search terms with third parties to have standing to sue.

But Google and the federal government say the consumers can’t show they suffered a concrete injury from the disclosures.

• Objector Ted Frank argues Google and the government confuse weakness on the merits with lack of Article III standing. Their ...