Google AdWords Class Suit Won’t Get SCOTUS Eye

Google advertisers may continue to pursue certification of class claims that the search engine lied about where their ads would appear, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case June 6 (Google Inc. v. Pulaski & Middleman LLC, U.S., 15-1101, review denied 6/6/16).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in September 2015 that differences in potential individual restitution awards alone don’t defeat class certification84 U.S.L.W. 420, 9/29/15, 16 CLASS 1013, 9/25/15, 20 ECLR 1313, 9/23/15.

The advertisers allege that Google Inc. failed to disclose that AdWords, the company’s auction-based program for placing advertisements, would ...