{"id":1031912,"date":"2026-08-29T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031912"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:34:34","slug":"judge-in-google-privacy-class-action-awards-lawyers-147-million-in-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/29\/judge-in-google-privacy-class-action-awards-lawyers-147-million-in-legal-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge in Google privacy class action awards lawyers $147 million in legal fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A U.S. judge on Friday awarded nearly $147 million in legal fees to plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers who won a $425 million jury verdict against Alphabet&#8217;s Google in a data privacy trial last year, while denying the company&#8217;s bid for an order rejecting the jury&#8217;s verdict. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted the fee request by law firms Boies Schiller Flexner, Susman Godfrey and \u200cMorgan &amp; Morgan over \u2060objections \u2060from some class members. A jury in September found Google liable for secretly collecting app activity data from millions of users who had disabled a tracking feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A U.S. judge on Friday awarded nearly $147 million in legal fees to plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers who won a $425 million jury verdict against Alphabet&#8217;s Google in a data privacy trial last year, while denying the company&#8217;s bid for an order rejecting the jury&#8217;s verdict. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted the fee request by law firms Boies Schiller Flexner, Susman Godfrey and \u200cMorgan &amp; Morgan over \u2060objections \u2060from some class members. A jury in September found Google liable for secretly collecting app activity data from millions of users who had disabled a tracking feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031940,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031912\/revisions\/1031940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}