{"id":999740,"date":"2026-03-28T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999740"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:51:31","slug":"us-judge-slashes-lawyers-fee-request-by-more-than-100-million-in-google-privacy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/us-judge-slashes-lawyers-fee-request-by-more-than-100-million-in-google-privacy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge slashes lawyers&#8217; fee request by more than $100 million in Google privacy case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers who negotiated a class action privacy settlement with Google are entitled to just a fraction of the $128 million in fees they sought as an award for their work, a U.S. federal judge ruled, finding that the attorneys achieved only limited success. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland on Thursday approved the settlement, which requires Google to provide a new privacy controls \u200cbut does \u2060not include \u2060any payment to class members. <\/p>\n<p>She awarded the plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers $21.8 million in legal fees as class counsel in the case, slashing the amount of their request by 80%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers who negotiated a class action privacy settlement with Google are entitled to just a fraction of the $128 million in fees they sought as an award for their work, a U.S. federal judge ruled, finding that the attorneys achieved only limited success. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland on Thursday approved the settlement, which requires Google to provide a new privacy controls \u200cbut does \u2060not include \u2060any payment to class members. She awarded the plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers $21.8 million in legal fees as class counsel in the case, slashing the amount of their request by 80%.<\/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-999740","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\/999740","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=999740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}