The Washington Examiner featured our president, Anna St. John’s piece about how cy pres funds the radical left.
A federal court in California approved a $62 million settlement recently in a class action alleging that Google violated the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of users by tracking their location and storing that information even though users had disabled the relevant account setting. As a Google user, you might be asking how to receive your portion of that fund.
The answer is that you won’t see a cent of it. The settlement instead will pay the entire fund (after the lawyers’ fees and costs are paid) to groups engaged in extreme left-wing advocacy work or work that is not targeted to benefit the class of Google users.
Courts have allowed this practice, known as cy pres, to proliferate despite ever easier and more inexpensive ways of paying small amounts to individual class members. This is one of the many ways that our legal system funds the Left, but it is even more insidious because it takes money that belongs to individual people, without their consent, and directs it to organizations and causes that are contrary to their values and interests.
Read more at the Washington Examiner.