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Writing from our lawyers on arbitration, the courts, and what public rulings mean for individual claims.
Case update: $3.2 billion in damages claims against Google head to a jury
On September 30, the federal court in New York handling the private cases against Google rejected most of Google's attempt to end the publishers' cases before trial and sent damages claims of more than $3.2 billion, before trebling, toward jury trials. Here is what the court decided and what it means for advertisers' claims.
Read the articleCase update: remedies ruling in the Google ad tech antitrust case
On September 16, the federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia made public its full remedies opinion in United States v. Google, the ad tech antitrust case. Here is what the court ordered and what it means for advertisers' overcharge claims.
Mass arbitration, explained
It is not a class action, and it is not a gimmick. Mass arbitration is what happens when the clause designed to keep claims small meets claimants organized enough to file all of them.
What a class-action waiver actually does
The paragraph nobody reads until it matters. How a few lines of boilerplate decide the forum, the strategy, and often the fate of a claim — and why the waiver binds its drafter too.
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