Google Stuck With $425.7 Million Verdict in Privacy-Switch Case

Google LLC was unable to overturn a $425.7 million federal jury verdict in favor of a class of users who sued over its broken promises not to share their data, but won’t have to pay billions more sought by the plaintiffs.

Rejecting Google’s contention that the evidence showed that liability turned on individual rather than class proof, Judge Richard Seeborg said Jan. 30 that the plaintiffs’ core theory—that Google collecting their data after saying it wouldn’t was inherently offensive—was “perfectly susceptible to collective proof.”

Seeborg also dismissed the plaintiffs’ motion for disgorgement of the profits Google obtained from its misconduct, ...