Supreme Court sends consumers suing Google over privacy issues back to court

MarketWatch covers the remand decision in Frank v. Gaos and quotes Ted Frank:

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said they weren’t signalling what they thought about the case’s standing issues. Still, the high court said the matter had to be addressed, given changes in the law.

Only Justice Clarence Thomas wanted to push on to the settlement, which he said shouldn’t have been approved. The agreement “provided members of the class no damages and no other form of meaningful relief,” Thomas wrote in his dissent.

Frank, litigation director at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, said the case would now go back to appellate judges in the Ninth Circuit, who would decide whether to kick it to the Northern District of California or decide the matter themselves.

“The day of reckoning has been postponed,” he told MarketWatch. “But the writing is on the wall.”

Read the whole article at MarketWatch.

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